Publication Date:
2012-11-21
Description:
Evolutionary biologists have postulated that several fitness advantages may be conferred by the maintenance of duplicate genes, including environmental adaptation resulting from differential regulation. We examined the expression and physiological contributions of two redundant operons in the adaptable bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa PA14. These operons, phzA1-G1 (phz1) and phzA2-G2 (phz2), encode...
Print ISSN:
0027-8424
Electronic ISSN:
1091-6490
Topics:
Biology
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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