Evolutionary adaptation to freeze-thaw-growth cycles in Escherichia coli

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 370-385

  Sleight, Sean C ^a   Lenski, Richard E ^a  

^a Michigan State University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); FITNESS; FREEZE-THAW CYCLE; GROWTH RATE; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; SURVIVAL;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION; FREEZING; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION; FREEZING; SELECTION (GENETICS); VARIATION (GENETICS);

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 34250808611     PISSN: 15222152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/518013     Document Type: Article

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