E. Senior, A. Bull, A. Bull
Oct 7, 1976
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Quality indicators
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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.