Increased fitness of Pseudomonas fluorescens Pf0-1 leucine auxotrophs in soil

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 74, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 3644-3651

  Kim, Wook ^a,b   Levy, Stuart B ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINES; AMINO ACIDS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; GENE ENCODING; GENES; HEALTH; MECHANISMS; MICROFLUIDICS; NUCLEIC ACIDS; ORGANIC ACIDS; RNA; TECHNOLOGY;

(E ,3E) PROCESS; (OTDR) TECHNOLOGY; (S)LEUCINE; AMERICAN SOCIETY; ANNOTATED GENES; ANTISENSE (AS) ORIENTATION; AUXOTROPHIC MUTANTS; BACTERIAL GENOMES; CYSTIC FIBROSIS (CF); ENCODING GENES; EUKARYOTIC GENOMES; GENETIC STRUCTURES; GROWTH CONDITIONS; IN-VIVO; PHYSIOLOGICAL ROLE; POTENTIAL MECHANISMS; PROKARYOTIC GENOMES; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; PSEUDOMONAS SPP; SOIL ENVIRONMENTS; UNDERLYING MECHANISM;

SOILS;

LEUCINE;

BACTERIUM; EUKARYOTE; FITNESS; GENETIC STRUCTURE; SOIL MICROORGANISM;

AMINO ACID METABOLISM; ARTICLE; AUXOTROPHY; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; FITNESS; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOIL;

AMINO ACIDS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, OVERLAPPING; MUTATION; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS;

EID: 45749083062     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00429-08     Document Type: Article

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