The generation of multiple co-existing mal-regulatory mutations through polygenic evolution in glucose-limited populations of Escherichia coli

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 45-52

  Notley McRobb, Lucinda ^a   Ferenci, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; GLUCOSE; LAMBDA PHAGE RECEPTOR; MALT PROTEIN, E COLI; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; VIRUS RECEPTOR;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT; ADAPTATION; ALLELE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ALLELES; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT, ACTIVE; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; EVOLUTION; GENES, BACTERIAL; GLUCOSE; MUTATION; RECEPTORS, VIRUS; SELECTION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0033068946     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1462-2920.1999.00003.x     Document Type: Article

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