Harnessing recombination to speed adaptive evolution in Escherichia coli

Metabolic Engineering

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 487-495

  Winkler, James ^a   Kao, Katy C ^a  

^a Texas AandM University   (United States)

Author keywords

Clonal interference; Complex phenotypes; Evolutionary engineering; Recombination

Indexed keywords

ASEXUAL POPULATION; CLONAL INTERFERENCE; COMPLEX PHENOTYPE; CONJUGATION SYSTEM; EVOLUTIONARY ENGINEERING; GENETIC EXCHANGE; IMPROVE-A; IN-SITU; RECOMBINATION; SPEED ADAPTIVE;

BIOTECHNOLOGY; METABOLISM;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ADAPTIVE EVOLUTION; ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CLONE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTIONARY ENGINEERING; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DIRECTED MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; F FACTOR;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84865611750     PISSN: 10967176     EISSN: 10967184     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ymben.2012.07.004     Document Type: Article

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