Adaptive synonymous mutations in an experimentally evolved Pseudomonas fluorescens population

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Bailey, Susan F ^a,b   Hinz, Aaron ^a   Kassen, Rees ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; ABC TRANSPORTER; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; FLIJ PROTEIN, BACTERIA; HOST FACTOR 1; MALTOSE BINDING PROTEIN; OPRB PROTEIN, PSEUDOMONAS; PORIN;

ADAPTATION; BACTERIUM; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FITNESS; GENE EXPRESSION; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; CATABOLITE REPRESSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOTYPE; GLUCOSE TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HOST FACTOR 1 PROTEIN; MALTOSE-BINDING PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PORINS; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84902313999     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5076     Document Type: Article

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