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Hampered motility promotes the evolution of wrinkly phenotype in Bacillus subtilis.

Anne RichterTheresa HölscherPatrick PauschTim SehrtFranziska BrockhausGert BangeÁkos T Kovács
Published in: BMC evolutionary biology (2018)
Our experiments suggest that loss of function phenotypes could expose rapid evolutionary adaptation in bacterial biofilms that is otherwise not evident in the wild type strains.
Keyphrases
  • bacillus subtilis
  • wild type
  • escherichia coli
  • biofilm formation
  • candida albicans
  • genome wide
  • loop mediated isothermal amplification
  • gene expression
  • pseudomonas aeruginosa
  • staphylococcus aureus
  • cystic fibrosis