Erratum: Escape from Lethal Bacterial Competition through Coupled Activation of Antibiotic Resistance and a Mobilized Subpopulation (PLoS Genetics (2015) 11:12 (e1005722) DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1005722);Escape from Lethal Bacterial Competition through Coupled Activation of Antibiotic Resistance and a Mobilized Subpopulation

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Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2015, Pages

  Stubbendieck, Reed M ^a   Straight, Paul D ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; LINEARMYCIN; NYSTATIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ALLELE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIOLYSIS; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; MISSENSE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOIL MICROFLORA; STREPTOMYCES; BIOFILM; DRUG EFFECTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MUTATION; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BIOFILMS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC FITNESS; MUTATION; STREPTOMYCES;

EID: 84953314233     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1005807     Document Type: Erratum

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