The phrase "a mutation that provides" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing genetics, biology, or any situation where a change or mutation offers a benefit or advantage.
Example: "The study revealed a mutation that provides resistance to certain diseases in plants."
Alternatives: "a mutation offering" or "a mutation supplying".
When an individual receives an antibiotic that specifically kills the bacteria causing the disease say, tuberculosis the immense majority of the bacteria die, but one in a million may have a mutation that provides resistance to the antibiotic.
But, of course, as the mutant gene becomes more common, any insect that happens to have a mutation that provides a slightly higher tolerance for the defensive chemical will be favored, and over many generations, this gene will become more common in the insect population.
First, a mutation that provides the potential to metastasize might have other effects (pleiotropy) that increases the survival or reproductive potential of the clone and so compensates for the fitness penalty of cell emigration [2], [5].
A driver gene is defined as a gene harboring a mutation that provides a selective advantage to the cancer cell.
In this study, we observe that resistance of laboratory E. coli to two sublethal concentrations of the aminoglycoside kanamycin eventually produces a mutation that provides sufficient resistance to the antibiotic, while being of low cost as measured by growth or fitness in the absence of the antibiotic.
Some resistance arises from a single point mutation (e.g. atovaquone resistance), but other types of resistance arise through a series of mutations or a primary mutation that provides an essential step, augmented by secondary mutations that progressively increase the level of resistance.
Thus, the conserved serine residue may represent a "resistance mutation" that provides protection against naturally occurring antibiotics.
CskDR contains a T266 M gatekeeper mutation that provides resistance to many ATP-competitive inhibitors (Supporting Information Table S1).
We examined the dynamics of [P12W]-Trp-cages in two species, both of which also had the [P18A] mutation that provides our preferred dynamics probe.
We found that homozygosity for the mutant allele leads to a marked loss of the protein levels of DJ-1 in fibroblasts in vivo and thereby confirm previous in vitro data on the E64D and the L166P mutation that provided evidence for instability of the mutant protein (supplemental figure S1) [8].
The isolate described here, Pond1, contains a unique combination of mutations that provides a way to track the spread of this strain of S. Paratyphi A.
