Quantifying fitness and gene stability in microorganisms.

doi:10.1016/b978-0-409-90199-3.50015-2

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Quantifying fitness and gene stability in microorganisms.

Biotechnology (Reading, Mass.) - 1 Jan 1991

Lenski R E

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Fitness represents the combined effects of all other phenotypic properties on the capacity for survival and reproduction by a particular genotype in a particular environment. For most environmental application of genetically modified microorganisms, efficacy will be enhanced if the engineered gen...

Topics

Bacteria
Crossing Over, Genetic
DNA, Recombinant
Escherichia coli
Gene Frequency
Genes, Bacterial
Mutation
Selection, Genetic
Transfection

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