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Natural variation of gliding motility in a centimetre-scale population of Myxococcus xanthus.

FEMS microbiology ecology - 1 Jun 2008

Vos Michiel, Velicer Gregory J

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A major challenge in microbial evolutionary ecology is to understand how fitness-related traits vary in natural populations of microorganisms at defined spatial scales and subsequently to identify the forces that maintain such variation. The Gram-negative soil bacterium Myxococcus xanthus is a model system for the study of gliding motility, which is driven by two complementary motility systems in this species and...

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PMID: 18410356
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2008.00484.x

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