E. coli microcosms indicate a tight link between predictability of ecosystem dynamics and diversity

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 2, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 0966-0971

  Imhof, Marianne ^a,b   Schlötterer, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL FLORA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; MICROCOSM; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL GENE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EVOLUTION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; STATISTICS; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENES, BACTERIAL; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

EID: 33746628143     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.0020103     Document Type: Article

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