How adaptive evolution reshapes metabolism to improve fitness: recent advances and future outlook

Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering

Volumn 22, Issue , 2018, Pages 209-215

  Long, Christopher P ^a   Antoniewicz, Maciek R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHYSIOLOGY; PRODUCTIVITY; STRAIN;

ADAPTIVE EVOLUTION; GENOME SEQUENCING; MEASUREMENT TECHNOLOGIES; METABOLIC FLUX ANALYSIS; MICROBIAL RESEARCH; PROCESS CONDITION; SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING; STRAIN DEVELOPMENT;

METABOLISM;

EID: 85057111635     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22113398     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coche.2018.11.001     Document Type: Review

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