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Evolution by flight and fight: diverse mechanisms of adaptation by actively motile microbes

Evolutionary adaptation can be achieved by mechanisms accessible to all organisms, including faster growth and interference competition, but self-generated motility offers additional possibilities. We tested whether 55 populations of the bacterium Myxococcus xanthus that underwent selection for incr...

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Autores principales: Rendueles, Olaya, Velicer, Gregory J
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5270557/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27662568
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ismej.2016.115