Figure 1: E. coli adapts at a slower pace in immune-compromised mice. | Nature Communications

Figure 1: E. coli adapts at a slower pace in immune-compromised mice.

From: Adaptive immunity increases the pace and predictability of evolutionary change in commensal gut bacteria

Figure 1

Dynamics of marker frequency (±2 s.e.m., representing the error associated with the sampling when calculating the frequency of the marker) during the first 6 (a) or 24 (b) days of adaptation of E. coli upon colonization of Rag2−/− (coloured) or WT (grey) mice (reproduced from ref. 11 for clarity). (c) Average frequency of the gat-negative phenotype (±2s.e.m.) over time across WT (white) and Rag2−/− (black) animals (n=15, for each host genotype) and the variance for the frequency (d).

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