Long term adaptation of a microbial population to a permanent metabolic constraint: Overcoming thymineless death by experimental evolution of Escherichia coli

BMC Biotechnology

Volumn 1, Issue , 2001, Pages

  de Crécy Lagard, Valérie A ^a   Bellalou, Jacques ^b   Mutzel, Rupert ^c   Marlière, Philippe ^d  

^a SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^d Evologic SA   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THYMINE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIUM CULTURE; DEVICE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GROWTH CHAMBER; GROWTH RATE; NONHUMAN; WILD TYPE; ADAPTATION; BACTERIAL GENE; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CYTOLOGY; EVOLUTION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INSTRUMENT STERILIZATION; INSTRUMENTATION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; TIME;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION; GENES, BACTERIAL; PHENOTYPE; SELECTION (GENETICS); STERILIZATION; THYMINE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0642280879     PISSN: 14726750     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6750-1-10     Document Type: Article

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