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Phenotypic diversity caused by differential RpoS activity among environmental Escherichia coli isolates.
Applied and environmental microbiology - 1 Nov 2011
Chiang Sarah M, Dong Tao, Edge Thomas A, Schellhorn Herb E
Abstract excerpt
Enteric bacteria deposited into the environment by animal hosts are subject to diverse selective pressures. These pressures may act on phenotypic differences in bacterial populations and select adaptive mutations for survival in stress. As a model to study phenotypic diversity in environmental bacteria, we examined mutations of the stress response sigma factor, RpoS, in environmental Escherichia coli isolates. A...
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