Genotype-by-environment interactions influencing the emergence of rpoS mutations in Escherichia coli populations

Genetics

Volumn 172, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 2071-2079

  King, Thea ^a   Seeto, Shona ^a   Ferenci, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SIGMA FACTOR RPOS;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CHEMOSTAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FITNESS; GENE CONTROL; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GLUCOSE TRANSPORT; LOW TEMPERATURE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CHLORAMPHENICOL; ENVIRONMENT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENOTYPE; GLUCOSE; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SIGMA FACTOR; TEMPERATURE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 33646181748     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.105.053892     Document Type: Article

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