Evidence that accumulation of mutants in a biofilm reflects natural selection rather than stress-induced adaptive mutation

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 357-361

  Banas, Jeffrey A ^a,d   Miller, Justin D ^a   Fuschino, Meghan E ^a   Hazlett, Karsten R O ^a   Toyofuku, Wendy ^a   Porter, Kristen A ^a   Reutzel, Sarah B ^a   Florczyk, Matthew A ^b   McDonough, Kathleen A ^b   Michalek, Suzanne M ^c  

^a ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

^c University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL CULTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GENES; MICROBIOLOGY;

DENTAL PATHOGEN; MUTANTS; NATURAL SELECTION; STRESS INDUCED ADAPTIVE MUTATION;

BIOFILMS;

BACTERIUM; BIOFILM; GENE; GENOTYPE; LOCAL ADAPTATION; MUTATION; NATURAL SELECTION; VIRULENCE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIOFILM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; IN VITRO STUDY; INOCULATION; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PLANKTON; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; STRESS;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOFILMS; CARRIER PROTEINS; DENTAL PLAQUE; GENE DELETION; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; HEAT-SHOCK RESPONSE; HUMANS; LECTINS; MUTATION; RATS; SELECTION (GENETICS); STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

RATTUS; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

EID: 33846160618     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02014-06     Document Type: Article

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