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Evolutionary selection of biofilm-mediated extended phenotypes in Yersinia pestis in response to a fluctuating environment

Yersinia pestis is transmitted from fleas to rodents when the bacterium develops an extensive biofilm in the foregut of a flea, starving it into a feeding frenzy, or, alternatively, during a brief period directly after feeding on a bacteremic host. These two transmission modes are in a trade-off reg...

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Autores principales: Cui, Yujun, Schmid, Boris V., Cao, Hanli, Dai, Xiang, Du, Zongmin, Ryan Easterday, W., Fang, Haihong, Guo, Chenyi, Huang, Shanqian, Liu, Wanbing, Qi, Zhizhen, Song, Yajun, Tian, Huaiyu, Wang, Min, Wu, Yarong, Xu, Bing, Yang, Chao, Yang, Jing, Yang, Xianwei, Zhang, Qingwen, Jakobsen, Kjetill S., Zhang, Yujiang, Stenseth, Nils Chr., Yang, Ruifu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6962365/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31941912
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-14099-w