The influence of cellular physiology on the initiation of mutational pathways in Escherichia coli populations

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 270, Issue 1517, 2003, Pages 843-848

  Notley McRobb, Lucinda ^a   Seeto, Shona ^a   Ferenci, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chemostat populations; Glucose limitation; Glucose transporters; Hunger response; Mutation rates; Mutational sweeps

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE;

EVOLUTION;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BACTERIUM COLONY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0037461340     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2002.2295     Document Type: Article

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