Working together to control mutation: how collective peroxide detoxification determines microbial mutation rate plasticity
R. Green, H. Wang, C. Botchey, N. Zhang, C. Wadsworth, A. McBain, P. Paszek, R. Krasovec, C. G. Knight
This study identifies hydrogen peroxide detoxification as the mechanism behind density-dependent mutation rate plasticity in microbial populations.
bioRxiv · Sep 27, 2023Evolutionary Biology