Adaptability of non-genetic diversity in bacterial chemotaxis

Bacterial chemotaxis systems are as diverse as the environments that bacteria inhabit, but how much environmental variation can cells tolerate with a single system? Diversification of a single chemotaxis system could serve as an alternative, or even evolutionary stepping-stone, to switching between...

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Main Authors: Nicholas W Frankel, William Pontius, Yann S Dufour, Junjiajia Long, Luis Hernandez-Nunez, Thierry Emonet
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eLife Sciences Publications Ltd 2014-10-01
Series:eLife
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Online Access:https://elifesciences.org/articles/03526