Constitutive versus responsive gene expression strategies for growth in changing environments

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Geisel, Nico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT;

ARTICLE; CELL GROWTH; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GROWTH RATE; MICROBIAL GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PHENOTYPE; ADAPTATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL PROLIFERATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TIME;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; CELL PROLIFERATION; ENVIRONMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OPERON; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 82355170203     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0027033     Document Type: Article

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