The 92-year-old bacterial geneticist who helped pioneer the study of gene regulation has passed away. A series of rodent experiments showed that even with abundant food and water, personal space is ...

You have full access to this article via your institution. Figure 1: Variation of the steady-state β-galactosidase activity with the specific growth rate. Because the β-galactosidase activity of ...

Bacterial genetics is based on the ability to select for rare mutants among large populations (1 in >10 10) on the basis of the ability of the bacteria to survive lethal challenges, grow in the ...

New research suggests a possible explanation for the organization of operons, jointly controlled clusters of genes that evolved in bacterial chromosomes. Operons, which are found in the chromosomes of ...