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. 1976 Oct 7;263(5577):476-9.
doi: 10.1038/263476a0.

Enzyme evolution in a microbial community growing on the herbicide Dalapon

E Senior, A T Bull, J H Slater

Enzyme evolution in a microbial community growing on the herbicide Dalapon

E Senior et al. Nature. .

Abstract

A seven-membered microbial community capable of utilising the herbicide Dalapon has been isolated by continuous-flow enrichment culture. The composition of this community has remained remarkably stable over thousands of hours in a Dalapon-limited chemostat. During this period, however, one member of the community, Pseudomonas putida, acquired the ability to grow on Dalapon through the evolution of an extant dehalogenase.

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