Simpson's paradox in a synthetic microbial system

Science

Volumn 323, Issue 5911, 2009, Pages 272-275

  Chuang, John S ^a   Rivoire, Olivier ^a   Leibler, Stanislas ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NATURAL SELECTION; POPULATION BOTTLENECK; POPULATION STRUCTURE; STOCHASTICITY;

ARTICLE; BOTTLENECK POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; MICROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMPSON PARADOX; STATISTICS; VARIANCE;

4-BUTYROLACTONE; ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CHLORAMPHENICOL RESISTANCE; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CULTURE MEDIA; CULTURE MEDIA, CONDITIONED; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; LIGASES; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; QUORUM SENSING; SELECTION (GENETICS); STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; SYSTEMS THEORY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 58149392486     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1166739     Document Type: Article

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30. We are grateful to C. Bargmann, C. Guet, L. Keller, E. Kussell, R. Losick, and A. Murray for comments on the manuscript and members of our laboratory for advice and discussion. We also thank the Yale Coli Genetic Stock Center and the National BioResource Project (NIG, Japan) for strains and the Rockefeller Flow Cytometry Resource Center for help. J.S.C. was partly supported by a NIH fellowship and O.R. by a Human Frontier Science Program fellowship.