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Adaptation to novel spatially-structured environments is driven by the capsule and alters virulence-associated traits

2022-03-03

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<title>Abstract</title> The extracellular capsule is a major virulence factor, but its ubiquity in free-living bacteria with large environmental breadths suggests that it shapes adaptation to novel niches. Yet, how it does so, remains unexplored. We evolved in parallel <italic>Klebsiella</italic> strains and their capsule mutants. Their comparison revealed different phenotypic and genotypic evolutionary change...

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Literature Corpus work: 032d044a-e258-5aee-90b8-ea851d0d5090
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-1320833/v1

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