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Rapid Evolution of Citrate Utilization by Escherichia coli by Direct Selection Requires citT and dctA.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 Feb 2016
Van Hofwegen Dustin J, Hovde Carolyn J, Minnich Scott A
Abstract excerpt
The isolation of aerobic citrate-utilizing Escherichia coli (Cit(+)) in long-term evolution experiments (LTEE) has been termed a rare, innovative, presumptive speciation event. We hypothesized that direct selection would rapidly yield the same class of E. coli Cit(+) mutants and follow the same genetic trajectory: potentiation, actualization, and refinement. This hypothesis was tested with wild-type E. coli...
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