Influence of the <i>acs</i> status of the background colony on the growth advantage of Rif^R and RpoS mutants.

Abstract

<p>Fold increase in wild-type and mutant cells added to 24 h wild-type or Δ<i>acs</i> colonies and allowed to age for a further 7 days. The box plots show the first quartile, median, and third quartile values. Outliers are indicated as triangles. Statistical significance of differences between strains is given in <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0109255#pone.0109255.s002" target="_blank">Table S2</a> and is indicated in the figure by asterisks (**  = 99% confidence interval, ***  = 99.9% confidence interval).</p