Correction: Spontaneous mutations and mutational responses to penicillin treatment in the bacterial pathogen D39.

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1007/s42995-024-00220-6.].

Spontaneous mutations and mutational responses to penicillin treatment in the bacterial pathogen D39.

Unlabelled: Bacteria with functional DNA repair systems are expected to have low mutation rates due to strong natural selection for genomic stability. However, our study of the wild-type D39, a pathogen responsible for many common diseases, revealed a high spontaneous mutation rate of 0.02 per genome per cell division in mutation-accumulation (MA) lines.

Rates of Mutations and Transcript Errors in the Foodborne Pathogen Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica.

Because errors at the DNA level power pathogen evolution, a systematic understanding of the rate and molecular spectra of mutations could guide the avoidance and treatment of infectious diseases. We thus accumulated tens of thousands of spontaneous mutations in 768 repeatedly bottlenecked lineages of 18 strains from various geographical sites, temporal spread, and genetic backgrounds. Entailing over ∼1.