title: Vive la resistance!
abstract: In vitro evolution experiments reveal that single mutations in three genes can increase the ability of E. coli to survive ionizing radiation by a factor of 1000.
authors.affiliation: Steven J Sandler is in the Department of Microbiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, United States sandler@microbio.umass.edu.
authors.forename: Steven J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Sandler
mesh_terms: D000220:Adaptation, Biological; D004260:DNA Repair; D045643:DNA Repair Enzymes / Q000235:genetics*; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000502:physiology* / Q000528:radiation effects*; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D011839:Radiation, Ionizing
chemical_list: D045643:DNA Repair Enzymes
keywords: DNA repair; evolution; extremophile; ionizing radiation; mutation