Adaptation Limits Diversification of Experimental Bacterial Populations

Science

Volumn 302, Issue 5653, 2003, Pages 2107-2109

  Buckling, Angus ^a   Wills, Matthew A ^a   Colegrave, Nick ^b  

^a University of Bath ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; GENES; POPULATION STATISTICS;

DIVERSIFICATION; MICROCOSMS;

BACTERIA;

ADAPTATION; BACTERIUM; GENOTYPE; NICHE; SPECIALIZATION;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; FITNESS; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; GENOTYPE; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; SELECTION (GENETICS); VARIATION (GENETICS);

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS;

EID: 0347623374     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1088848     Document Type: Article

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