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De Ste Croix, M., Holmes, J., Wanford, JJ., Moxon, ER., Oggioni, MR., Bayliss CD. Selective and Non-Selective Bottlenecks as Drivers of the Evolution of Hypermutable Bacterial Loci. Molecular Microbiology. (2020). doi:10.1111/mmi.14453
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