The origin of mutants

MUTATIONS OF BACTERIA FROM VIRUS SENSITIVITY TO VIRUS RESISTANCE

1943 • 3,852 citations

The distribution of the numbers of mutants in bacterial populations

1949 • 1,471 citations

REPLICA PLATING AND INDIRECT SELECTION OF BACTERIAL MUTANTS

1952 • 1,360 citations

Insertion of DNA activates the cryptic bgl operon in E. coli K12

1981 • 257 citations

Observations on the formation of clones containing araB-lacZ cistron fusions

1984 • 197 citations

ISOLATION OF PRE-ADAPTIVE MUTANTS IN BACTERIA BY SIB SELECTION

1956 • 135 citations

THE FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTION OF SPONTANEOUS BACTERIOPHAGE MUTANTS AS EVIDENCE FOR THE EXPONENTIAL RATE OF PHAGE REPRODUCTION

1951 • 124 citations

Microbic Dissociation: The Instability of Bacterial Species with Special Reference to Active Dissociation and Transmissible Autolysis Six Plates

1927 • 118 citations

Evolution of a Second Gene for β-Galactosidase in Escherichia coli

1973 • 108 citations

A population birth-and-mutation process, I: explicit distributions for the number of mutants in an old culture of bacteria

1974 • 63 citations

Evolution of a new enzymatic function by recombination within a gene.

1980 • 48 citations

Molecular biology: Genetic noise in evolution?

1984 • 46 citations

Number of mutations required to evolve a new lactase function in Escherichia coli

1977 • 30 citations

Distribution of Numbers of Mutant Bacteria in Replicate Cultures

1952 • 16 citations