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Decreased thermal niche breadth as a trade-off of antibiotic resistance.
The ISME journal - 1 Jul 2022
Herren Cristina M, Baym Michael
Abstract excerpt
Evolutionary theory predicts that adaptations, including antibiotic resistance, should come with associated fitness costs; yet, many resistance mutations seemingly contradict this prediction by inducing no growth rate deficit. However, most growth assays comparing sensitive and resistant strains have been performed under a narrow range of environmental conditions, which do not reflect the variety of contexts that...
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