Metabolic Erosion Primarily Through Mutation Accumulation, and Not Tradeoffs, Drives Limited Evolution of Substrate Specificity in Escherichia coli

PLoS Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Leiby, Nicholas ^a,b   Marx, Christopher J ^a,c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CITRIC ACID; GLUCOSE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CARBON SOURCE; CELL RESPIRATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE MUTATION; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; GROWTH RATE; METABOLIC EROSION; METABOLISM; NONHUMAN;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CULTURE MEDIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION;

EID: 84895426677     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001789     Document Type: Article

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