Article
Escherichia coli evolution during stationary phase.
Research in microbiology - 1 Jun 2004
Zinser Erik R, Kolter Roberto
Abstract excerpt
The process of evolution by natural selection has been known for a century and a half, yet the mechanics of selection are still poorly understood. In most cases where natural selection has been studied, the genetic and physiological bases of fitness variation that result in population changes were not identified, leaving only a partial understanding of selection. Starved cultures of the bacterium Escherichia coli...
Topics
- Adaptation, Biological
- Bacterial Proteins
- Chromosomes, Bacterial
- DNA Transposable Elements
- DNA, Bacterial
- Escherichia coli
- Evolution, Molecular
- Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial
- Genes, Bacterial
- Genome, Bacterial
- Models, Biological