Normal Mutation Rate Variants Arise in a Mutator (Mut S) Escherichia coli Population

• María-Carmen Turrientes,

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Ramón y Cajal Institute for Health Research, Madrid, Spain, Centro de Investigación Biomedica en Red de Epidemiología y Salud Pública, Carlos III Health Institute, Madrid, Spain

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• Fernando Baquero ,

  * E-mail: baquero@bitmailer.net (FB); jgalanm.hrc@salud.madrid.org (JCG)

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Ramón y Cajal Institute for Health Research, Madrid, Spain, Centro de Investigación Biomedica en Red de Epidemiología y Salud Pública, Carlos III Health Institute, Madrid, Spain, Joint Unit for Research in Antibiotic Resistance and Virulence, Madrid, Spain

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• Bruce R. Levin,

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Emory University, Atlanta Georgia, United States of America

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• José-Luis Martínez,

  Affiliations Joint Unit for Research in Antibiotic Resistance and Virulence, Madrid, Spain, Department of Microbial Biotechnology, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología, Madrid, Spain

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• Aida Ripoll,

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Ramón y Cajal Institute for Health Research, Madrid, Spain, Centro de Investigación Biomedica en Red de Epidemiología y Salud Pública, Carlos III Health Institute, Madrid, Spain

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• José-María González-Alba,

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Ramón y Cajal Institute for Health Research, Madrid, Spain, Centro de Investigación Biomedica en Red de Epidemiología y Salud Pública, Carlos III Health Institute, Madrid, Spain

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• Raquel Tobes,

  Affiliation Research Department, Era7 Bioinformatics, Granada, Spain

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• Marina Manrique,

  Affiliation Research Department, Era7 Bioinformatics, Granada, Spain

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• Maria-Rosario Baquero,

  Affiliation Faculty of Health Sciences, Alfonso X El Sabio University, Madrid, Spain

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• Mario-José Rodríguez-Domínguez,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Ramón y Cajal Institute for Health Research, Madrid, Spain

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• Rafael Cantón,

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Ramón y Cajal Institute for Health Research, Madrid, Spain, Faculty of Health Sciences, Alfonso X El Sabio University, Madrid, Spain

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• Juan-Carlos Galán

  * E-mail: baquero@bitmailer.net (FB); jgalanm.hrc@salud.madrid.org (JCG)

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Ramón y Cajal Institute for Health Research, Madrid, Spain, Centro de Investigación Biomedica en Red de Epidemiología y Salud Pública, Carlos III Health Institute, Madrid, Spain, Joint Unit for Research in Antibiotic Resistance and Virulence, Madrid, Spain

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