Article
Evolution of competitive fitness in experimental populations of E. coli: what makes one genotype a better competitor than another?
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek - 1 Jan 1998
Lenski R E, Mongold J A, Sniegowski P D, Travisano M, Vasi F, Gerrish P J, Schmidt T M
Abstract excerpt
An important problem in microbial ecology is to identify those phenotypic attributes that are responsible for competitive fitness in a particular environment. Thousands of papers have been published on the physiology, biochemistry, and molecular genetics of Escherichia coli and other bacterial mo...
Topics
- Adaptation, Physiological
- Biological Evolution
- Escherichia coli
- Genotype
- Glucose
- Mutation
- Time Factors