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The decoupling between genetic structure and metabolic phenotypes in Escherichia coli leads to continuous phenotypic diversity.
Journal of evolutionary biology - 1 Jul 2011
Sabarly V, Bouvet O, Glodt J, Clermont O, Skurnik D, Diancourt L, de Vienne D, Denamur E, Dillmann C
Abstract excerpt
To assess the extent of intra-species diversity and the links between phylogeny, lifestyle (habitat and pathogenicity) and phenotype, we assayed the growth yield on 95 carbon sources of 168 Escherichia strains. We also correlated the growth capacities of 14 E. coli strains with the presence/absence of enzyme-coding genes. Globally, we found that the genetic distance, based on multilocus sequence typing data, was...
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