Malthusian Parameters as Estimators of the Fitness of Microbes: A Cautionary Tale about the Low Side...
Malthusian Parameters as Estimators of the Fitness of Microbes: A Cautionary Tale about the Low Side of High Throughput
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The maximum exponential growth rate, the Malthusian parameter (MP), is commonly used as a measure of fitness in experimental studies of adaptive evolution and of the effects of antibiotic resistance and other genes on the fitness of planktonic microbes. Thanks to automated, multi-well optical density plate readers and computers, with little hands-o...
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Malthusian Parameters as Estimators of the Fitness of Microbes: A Cautionary Tale about the Low Side of High Throughput
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TN_cdi_plos_journals_1691408644
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_plos_journals_1691408644
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1932-6203
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1932-6203
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10.1371/journal.pone.0126915
