System for determining the relative fitness of multiple bacterial populations without using selective markers

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 72, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 7383-7385

  Ahn, Hyo Jin ^a   La, Hyun Joon ^a   Forney, Larry J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOMARKERS; POPULATION STATISTICS; STRAIN;

MIILTISPECIES; NEUTRAL MARKERS; RELATIVE FITNESS;

BACTERIA;

BACTERIUM; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); FITNESS; MEASUREMENT METHOD;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL POPULATION; EVALUATION; GENETIC MARKER; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; NONHUMAN; POPULATION BIOLOGY; RELATIVE FITNESS; RESOURCE PARTITIONING; SPECIES COMPARISON; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CULTURE MEDIA; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; KANAMYCIN; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; RIFAMPIN; SERRATIA MARCESCENS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 33750994347     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01246-06     Document Type: Article

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