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Differential stress resistance and metabolic traits underlie coexistence in a sympatrically evolved bacterial population.
Environmental microbiology - 1 Mar 2015
Puentes-Téllez Pilar Eliana, van Elsas Jan Dirk
Abstract excerpt
Following intermittent batch growth in Luria-Bertani (LB) broth for about 1000 generations, differentially evolved forms were found in a population of Escherichia coli cells. Studies on this population revealed the emergence of key polymorphisms, as evidenced by analysis of both whole genome sequences and transcription analysis. Here, we investigated the phenotypic nature of several key forms and found a...
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