Mutation rates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis: From the archives (2013)
Catherine Potenski
Continuing with our month-long celebration of Nature Genetics 25th anniversary, I have chosen to highlight a study by Sarah Fortune and colleagues estimating mutation rate differences between different lineages of Mycobacterium tuberculosis published in June 2013.
Multidrug resistance in M. tuberculosis is a global problem, and understanding the origins and dynamics of the emergence of resistance is an important scientific and public health endeavor.
Building on their previous work that used...