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. 2013 Mar;7(3):465-7.
doi: 10.1038/ismej.2012.131. Epub 2012 Nov 22.

Microbial individuality in the natural environment

M Ackermann  1
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Microbial individuality in the natural environment

M Ackermann. ISME J. 2013 Mar.

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  • ISME J. 2014 Feb;8(2):492
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Figure 1
Phenotypic variation in gene expression (left) and metabolic activity (right) in clonal populations of bacteria. Left: a microcolony of Salmonella Typhimurium grown from a single cell; the green color corresponds to the expression of green fluorescent protein under the control of the flagellar promoter flgK (image: N Freed and M Ackermann). Right: cells from a clonal population of Klebsiella oxytoca, analyzed with nano-scale secondary ion mass spectrometry. Orange and red denote high levels of 15N in the biomass as a consequence of the fixation of experimentally provided 30N2 (image: F Schreiber, T Vagner, M Kuypers, M Ackermann). The white scale-bars correspond to about 5 μm.
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