Benefits of a recombination-proficient Escherichia coli system for adaptive laboratory evolution

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 82, Issue 22, 2016, Pages 6736-6747

  Peabody, George ^a   Winkler, James ^b,e   Fountain, Weston ^a   Castro, David A ^c   Leiva Aravena, Enzo ^d   Kao, Katy C ^a  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^b University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

^c The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^d PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^e Biodomain Shell Technology Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE TRANSFER;

BATCH TRANSFER; CLONAL INTERFERENCE; FUNCTION OF TRANSFER; GENETIC EXCHANGE; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; KINETIC MODELING; RECOMBINATION FREQUENCIES; SEXUAL RECOMBINATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

BIOENGINEERING; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; DNA; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENE; GENOTYPE; LABORATORY METHOD; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; RECOMBINATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DIRECTED MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PROCEDURES;

CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DIRECTED MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENOTYPE; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84995450758     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01850-16     Document Type: Article

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