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A Quantitative Fitness Analysis Workflow
Published on: August 13, 2012
Competitive fitness of isolates enriched on phenanthrene sorbed to model phases
Gregory M Colores1, David M Ward, William P Inskeep
1Department of Land Resources and Environmental Sciences, Montana State University, Bozeman 59717-3120, USA. color1gm@cmich.edu
Applied and Environmental Microbiology
|May 1, 2007
Abstract:
We evaluated the competitive fitness of three phenanthrene-mineralizing isolates that were provided with nonsorbed or sorbed phenanthrene in competition experiments. One isolate had a clear advantage when presented with Amberlite IRC-50-sorbed phenanthrene, yet none were favored when presented with nonsorbed or Amberlite XAD-7-sorbed phenanthrene. Our results indicate that contaminant availability alone does not determine the isolates' competitive fitness.

