The SOS response increases bacterial fitness, but not evolvability, under a sublethal dose of antibiotic

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 282, Issue 1816, 2015, Pages

  Torres Barceló, Clara ^a,b   Kojadinovic, Mila ^a,d   Moxon, Richard ^c   Maclean, R Craig ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Antibiotics; Bacteria; Evolvability; Fitness; SOS response; Stress

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTICS; BACTERIUM; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FITNESS; MUTAGENICITY; MUTATION; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; SUBLETHAL EFFECT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CIPROFLOXACIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; DNA REPAIR; DRUG EFFECTS; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CIPROFLOXACIN; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC FITNESS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SOS RESPONSE (GENETICS);

EID: 84943643459     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2015.0885     Document Type: Article

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