Table 2.
Mutational process or effect | Example(s) | Reference(s) |
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SIM | DNA damage inducing error-prone polymerases; starvation/stress-mediated increase in RpoS inducing error-prone polymerase | 188, 267, 311 |
Phase variation | Environmental regulation of switching rates | 18 |
GDA | Stress-induced amplification | 181 |
Competence/LGT | DNA uptake regulated by starvation and other stresses | 345 |
Transient mutation | Mistranslation of DNA repair proteins and stochastic variations | 218 |
Buffering phenotypes of mutations | Mutational effects altered by chaperones | 202, 329 |