Culture history and population heterogeneity as determinants of bacterial adaptation: The adaptomics of a single environmental transition

Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 597-625

  Ryall, Ben ^a   Eydallin, Gustavo ^a   Ferenci, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; SIGMA FACTOR RPOS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ADAPTATION; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CELL AGING; CELL DENSITY; CELL SIZE; CHROMOSOME; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENOTYPE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PLANKTON; POPULATION SIZE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REVIEW; STRESS; SURVIVAL;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; CULTURE MEDIA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; PHENOTYPE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84865766606     PISSN: 10922172     EISSN: 10985557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MMBR.05028-11     Document Type: Review

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