Expressly unfit for the laboratory: Little correlation between microbial gene expression and environmental conditions in the lab
Thursday, June 20, 2013 - 06:30
in Biology & Nature
A new study challenges the orthodoxy of microbiology, which holds that in response to environmental changes, bacterial genes will boost production of needed proteins and decrease production of those that aren't. The study found that for bacteria in the laboratory there was little evidence of adaptive genetic response.