The apparent clock-like evolution of Escherichia coli in glucose-limited chemostats is reproducible at large but not at small population sizes and can be explained with Monod kinetics

Microbiology

Volumn 148, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 2889-2902

  Wick, Lukas M ^a   Weilenmann, Hansueli ^a   Egli, Thomas ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Continuous culture; Glucose affinity; Maximum specific growth rate; Molecular clock; rpoS

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GLUCOSE; SIGMA FACTOR RPOS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BINDING AFFINITY; CELL COUNT; CHEMOSTAT; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DILUTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE MUTATION; GROWTH INHIBITION; MODEL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION SIZE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SIMULATION; TIME; ADAPTATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DIRECTED MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; KINETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI K12; NEGIBACTERIA;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; DIRECTED MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GLUCOSE; KINETICS; MICROBIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0036736638     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-148-9-2889     Document Type: Article

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