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Stock culture heterogeneity rather than new mutational variation complicates short-term cell physiology studies of Escherichia coli K-12 MG1655 in continuous culture.
Microbiology (Reading, England) - 1 Sept 2011
Nahku Ranno, Peebo Karl, Valgepea Kaspar, Barrick Jeffrey E, Adamberg Kaarel, Vilu Raivo
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Nutrient-limited continuous cultures in chemostats have been used to study microbial cell physiology for over 60 years. Genome instability and genetic heterogeneity are possible uncontrolled factors in continuous cultivation experiments. We investigated these issues by using high-throughput (HT) DNA sequencing to characterize samples from different phases of a glucose-limited accelerostat (A-stat) experiment with...
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