The impact of natural transformation on adaptation in spatially structured bacterial populations

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Moradigaravand, Danesh ^a   Engelstädter, Jan ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bacterial adaptation; Bacterial transformation; Biofilm; Spatially structured populations

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ALLELE; DNA; GENE FLOW; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION GROWTH;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

BACTERIAL DNA;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; BIOFILM; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANKTON;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; BIOFILMS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DNA, BACTERIAL; PLANKTON; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

EID: 84902752792     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-14-141     Document Type: Article

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