Microbial competition: Escherichia coli mutants that take over stationary phase cultures.

@article{Zambrano1993MicrobialCE,
  title={Microbial competition: Escherichia coli mutants that take over stationary phase cultures.},
  author={Mar{\'i}a Mercedes Zambrano and Deborah A. Siegele and Marta A. Almir{\'o}n and Antonio Tormo and Roberto Kolter},
  journal={Science},
  year={1993},
  volume={259 5102},
  pages={
          1757-60
        }
}
Many microorganisms, including Escherichia coli, can survive extended periods of starvation. The properties of cells that survived prolonged incubation in stationary phase were studied by mixture of 10-day-old (aged) cultures with 1-day-old (young) cultures of the same strain of Escherichia coli. Mutants from the aged cultures that could grow eventually took over the population, which resulted in the death of the cells from the young cultures. This phenotype was conferred by mutations in rpoS… 
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