Idiosyncratic Fitness Costs of Ampicillin-Resistant Mutants Derived from a Long-Term Experiment with <i>Escherichia coli</i>

Antibiotic resistance is a growing concern that has prompted a renewed focus on drug discovery, stewardship, and evolutionary studies of the patterns and processes that underlie this phenomenon. A resistant strain’s competitive fitness relative to its sensitive counterparts in the absence of drug ca...

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Main Authors: Jalin A. Jordan, Richard E. Lenski, Kyle J. Card
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2022-03-01
Series:Antibiotics
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2079-6382/11/3/347