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Natural resource landscapes of a marine bacterium reveal distinct fitness-determining genes across the genome.
Environmental microbiology - 1 Jun 2017
Takemura Alison F, Corzett Christopher H, Hussain Fatima, Arevalo Philip, Datta Manoshi, Yu Xiaoqian, Le Roux Frederique, Polz Martin F
Abstract excerpt
Heterotrophic bacteria exploit diverse microhabitats in the ocean, from particles to transient gradients. Yet the degree to which genes and pathways can contribute to an organism's fitness on such complex and variable natural resource landscapes remains poorly understood. Here, we determine the gene-by-gene fitness of a generalist saprophytic marine bacterium (Vibrio sp. F13 9CS106) on complex resources derived...
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