In glucose-limited continuous culture the minimum substrate concentration for growth, s min, is crucial in the competition between the enterobacterium Escherichia coli and Chelatobacter heintzii, an environmentally abundant bacterium

ISME Journal

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 777-789

  Füchslin, Hans Peter ^a,c   Schneider, Christian ^a,b,d   Egli, Thomas ^a,b  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c Bachema AG   (Switzerland)

^d Lemon Consult GmbH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

competition; continuous culture; minimum substrate concentration (s min); Monod kinetics; oligotrophy; slow growth

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; LACTOSE;

BACTERIUM; BIOLOGICAL UPTAKE; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DATA SET; DILUTION; GLUCOSE; GROWTH RATE; INOCULATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REACTION KINETICS; SUBSTRATE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CULTURE MEDIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; KINETICS; METABOLISM; PHYLLOBACTERIACEAE;

CULTURE MEDIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GLUCOSE; KINETICS; LACTOSE; PHYLLOBACTERIACEAE;

AMINOBACTER AMINOVORANS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84858862495     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2011.143     Document Type: Article

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