Mechanism for microbial population collapse in a fluctuating resource environment
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Mechanism for microbial population collapse in a fluctuating resource environment
Managing trade-offs through gene regulation is believed to confer resilience to a microbial community in a fluctuating resource environment. To investigate this hypothesis, we imposed a fluctuating environment that required the sulfate-reducer Desulfovibrio vulgaris to undergo repeated ecologically relevant shifts between retaining metabolic independence (active capacity for sulfate respiration...
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عنوان ژورنال: Molecular Systems Biology
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1744-4292,1744-4292
DOI: 10.15252/msb.20167058