Episodic selection and the maintenance of competence and natural transformation in Bacillus subtilis

Genetics

Volumn 181, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1521-1533

  Johnsen, P J ^a,c   Dubnau, D ^b   Levin, B R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; PENICILLIN G;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; COMPETENCE; HYPOTHESIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES; VALIDITY; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRUG EFFECT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME; VALIDATION STUDY;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MUTATION; PENICILLIN G; SELECTION (GENETICS); TIME FACTORS; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

EID: 67650333525     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.108.099523     Document Type: Article

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