High levels of colicin resistance in Escherichia coli

Evolution

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1270-1276

  Feldgarden, Michael ^a,b   Riley, Margaret A ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Allelopathy; Colicin resistance; Colicins; Escherichia colt; Pleiotropy

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTICS; BACTERIUM; PESTICIDE RESISTANCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0031789491     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.1998.tb02008.x     Document Type: Article

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