Adaptive mgl-regulatory mutations and genetic diversity evolving in glucose-limited Escherichia coli populations

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 33-43

  Notley McRobb, Lucinda ^a   Ferenci, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

GALACTOSE; GLUCOSE;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT; ADAPTATION; ALLELE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; OPERATOR GENE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ALLELES; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT, ACTIVE; CULTURE MEDIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GALACTOSE; GENES, BACTERIAL; GLUCOSE; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MUTATION; OPERATOR REGIONS (GENETICS); VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0033068938     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1462-2920.1999.00002.x     Document Type: Article

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