Increased fitness and alteration of metabolic pathways during bacillus subtilis evolution in the laboratory

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 4105-4118

  Maughan, Heather ^a   Nicholson, Wayne L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETOIN; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BATCH CULTURE; CANDIDATE GENES; CELL MORPHOLOGY; COCULTURE; COLONY MORPHOLOGY; COMPLEX LIQUID; GROWTH PHASE; KENNEDY SPACE CENTERS; METABOLIC PATHWAYS; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; SPACE LIFE SCIENCE;

BACILLI; BACTERIOLOGY; BATCH CELL CULTURE; BIOCHEMISTRY; GENES; GLUCOSE; HEALTH; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; LIQUIDS; METABOLISM; MORPHOLOGY; SPACE PLATFORMS; TRANSCRIPTION;

STRAIN;

BACTERIAL DNA;

ACETATE; BACTERIUM; COLONY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FITNESS; GENE EXPRESSION; GLUCOSE; GROWTH CURVE; LABORATORY METHOD; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; METABOLISM; MORPHOLOGY; MUTATION; SPORULATION;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CHEMISTRY; CHEMOTAXIS; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LOCOMOTION; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CHEMOTAXIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; LOCOMOTION; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS;

EID: 79960092523     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00374-11     Document Type: Article

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