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BBC Trust Review of Network Music Radio, Submission by BBC Audience Council Northern Ireland, September 2014
Weak Mutators Can Drive the Evolution of Fluoroquinolone Resistance in Escherichia coli
Weak mutators are common among clinical isolates of Escherichia coli. We show that the relative mutation rate and the “evolvability of fluoroquinolone resistance” are related by a power law slope of 1.2 over 3 orders of magnitude. Thus, even weak mutators can drive the evolution of fluoroquinolone resistance under selection pressure