Contribution of increased mutagenesis to the evolution of pollutants-degrading indigenous bacteria.

Bacteria can rapidly evolve mechanisms allowing them to use toxic environmental pollutants as a carbon source. In the current study we examined whether the survival and evolution of indigenous bacteria with the capacity to degrade organic pollutants could be connected with increased mutation frequen...

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Main Authors: Tanel Ilmjärv, Eve Naanuri, Maia Kivisaar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0182484&type=printable