Mongold J A, Lenski R E
Center for Microbial Ecology, Michigan State University, East Lansing 48824-1325, USA.
J Bacteriol. 1996 Sep;178(17):5333-4. doi: 10.1128/jb.178.17.5333-5334.1996.
Populations of Escherichia coli that have been serially propagated for thousands of generations in glucose minimal medium show heritable increases in both cell size and growth rate. We sought to test the hypothesis that the increased cell size of the derived genotypes could be explained solely by their faster growth. The regression of cell size on growth rate differed significantly between populations having ancestral and derived genotypes, with the latter producing larger cells over almost the entire range of growth rates. Thus, the physiological coupling between cell size and growth rate has been evolutionarily altered.
在葡萄糖基本培养基中连续传代数千代的大肠杆菌群体,其细胞大小和生长速率均呈现出可遗传的增加。我们试图检验这样一个假设,即衍生基因型细胞大小的增加仅可由其更快的生长来解释。具有祖先基因型和衍生基因型的群体之间,细胞大小对生长速率的回归存在显著差异,后者在几乎整个生长速率范围内产生更大的细胞。因此,细胞大小与生长速率之间的生理耦合在进化上发生了改变。