Rates of evolutionary change of resident Escherichia coli O157:H7 differ within the same ecological niche.
Margaret D WeinrothMichael L ClawsonTerrance M ArthurJames E WellsDayna M Brichta-HarhayNorval StrachanJames L BonoPublished in: BMC genomics (2022)
In one ecological niche, a diverse STEC O157:H7 population exhibited different rates of evolution that associated with SNP alleles in linkage disequilibrium in the core genome and mobile elements, including tir 255 T > A.