The Fluctuation Test

John Dennehy of The Evilutionary Biologist continues his almost perfect¹ record of picking important papers for his Citation Classic.

This week's paper is the classic 1943 paper by Luria and Delbrück on the fluctuation test [The Fluctuation test]. This was the paper that proved that mutations arise randomly with respect to their phenotype. As John says, it is one of the most important experiments in biology.

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1. For the exception see It Happens to all of Us Eventually.