Erosion of functional independence early in the evolution of a microbial mutualism

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 41, 2014, Pages 14822-14827

  Hillesland, Kristina L ^a   Lim, Sujung ^a   Flowers, Jason J ^b   Turkarslan, Serdar ^c   Pinel, Nicolas ^b,c   Zane, Grant M ^d   Elliott, Nicholas ^b   Qin, Yujia ^e,f   Wu, Liyou ^e,f   Baliga, Nitin S ^c,g,h   Zhou, Jizhong ^e,f,i,j   Wall, Judy D ^d   Stahl, David A ^b   Doolittle, W Ford ^k  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON BOTHELL   (United States)

^b University of Washington   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (United States)

^d University of Missouri   (United States)

^e Institute for Environmental Genomics   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^h Earth Science Division   (United States)

ⁱ LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^j TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^k DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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Author keywords

Coevolution; Experimental evolution; Sulfate reducing prokaryote; Syntrophy; Trade offs

Indexed keywords

SULFATE;

COCULTURE; DESULFOVIBRIO VULGARIS; DIRECTED MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHANOCOCCUS; MUTATION; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHENOTYPE; SYMBIOSIS;

COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; DESULFOVIBRIO VULGARIS; DIRECTED MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; METHANOCOCCUS; MUTATION; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHENOTYPE; SULFATES; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84907937911     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1407986111     Document Type: Article

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