Evolutionary BiologybioRxiv
Generation of mutation hotspots in ageing bacterial colonies
Agnieszka Sekowska, Sofie Wendel, Morten Helge Hauberg Norholm, Antoine Danchin
The paper isolates adaptive mutants from ageing bacterial colonies, identifies mutation hotspots, and shows mutations increasingly originate from 8-oxo-guanosine on the transcribed strand.
DOI 10.1038/s41598-016-0005-4