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SUBMITTER: Phan K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3965312 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
The ISME journal 20130516 10
Bacterial species are internally diverse in genomic and multi-locus gene comparisons. The ecological causes of phenotypic and genotypic diversity within species are far less well understood. Here, we focus on the competitive fitness for growth on nutrients within Escherichia coli, an internally rich species. Competition experiments in nutrient-limited chemostats revealed that members of the ECOR collection exhibited a wide continuum of competitive abilities, with some fitter and some less fit th ...[more]