Fate of a Mutant Emerging at the Initial Stage of Evolution

Researches on Population Ecology

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 231-237

  Xu, Wei Zhong ^a   Kashiwagi, Akiko ^a   Yomo, Tetsuya ^a   Urabe, Itaru ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bacterial mutants; Biodiversity; Coexistence; Competition; Continuous culture; Escherichia coli

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0000298695     PISSN: 00345466     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02515732     Document Type: Article

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