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Trade-off between bile resistance and nutritional competence drives Escherichia coli diversification in the mouse gut.
PLoS genetics - 1 Jun 2011
De Paepe Marianne, Gaboriau-Routhiau Valérie, Rainteau Dominique, Rakotobe Sabine, Taddei François, Cerf-Bensussan Nadine
Abstract excerpt
Bacterial diversification is often observed, but underlying mechanisms are difficult to disentangle and remain generally unknown. Moreover, controlled diversification experiments in ecologically relevant environments are lacking. We studied bacterial diversification in the mammalian gut, one of the most complex bacterial environments, where usually hundreds of species and thousands of bacterial strains stably...
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