Spontaneous Polyploids and Antimutators Compete During the Evolution of <i>Saccharomyces cerevisiae</i> Mutator Cells

Maxwell Tracy, Mitchell Lee, Brady L Hearn, Ian T. Dowsett, Luke C. Thurber, Jason Loo, Anisha M. Loeb, Kent Preston, Miles Tuncel, Niloufar Ghodsian,

Genetics · 2020 · 13 citations · 53 references

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Abstract “Mutator” tumor cells that cannot correct DNA replication errors exhibit an extremely high mutation rate that accelerates their evolution. But this gamble puts them at risk for extinction....

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