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Table 1.

B. subtilis strains used in this study^a

Strain	Genotype and/or phenotype	Source, reference, and/or transformation process^b
WN624	trpC2, amyE::spc; Spc^r ancestral strain	9
WN628	trpC2, amyE::cat; Chl^r ancestral strain	9
WN715	trpC2, amyE::cat; Chl^r strain isolated before WN716 population sweep	11
WN716	trpC2, amyE::spc; Spc^r strain evolved from WN624 to greater fitness	11
WN1148	Strain AMBs2; trpC2, pheA1, alsR::spc; Spc^r	E. Härtig (6)
WN1220	B. subtilis subsp. spizizenii strain NRRL B-14821	M. Roberts (13)
WN1237	Strain HB4035; sigD::kan	J. Helmann (18)
WN1238	Strain HB0042; sigW::kan	J. Helmann
WN1239	Strain HB0020; sigW::erm	J. Helmann (4)
WN1241	trpC2, amyE::cat, alsR::spc; Chl^r, Spc^r	WN1148→WN628; Spc^r/Chl^r
WN1242	trpC2, amyE::cat, sigD::kan; Chl^r, Kan^r	WN1237→WN628; Kan^r/Chl^r
WN1243	trpC2, amyE::cat, sigW::kan; Chl^r, Kan^r	WN1238→WN628; Kan^r/Chl^r
WN1244	trpC2, amyE::cat, sigW::erm; Chl^r, Erm^r	WN1239→WN628; Erm^r/Chl^r
WN1262	trpC2, amyE::tet, Tet^r	pCm::Tc→WN628; Tet^r/Chl^s
WN1265	trpC2, amyE::cat, alsR::spc, sigD::kan; Chl^r, Kan^r, Spc^r	WN1242→WN1241; Kan^r/Chl^r, Spc^r
WN1266	trpC2, amyE::cat, alsR::spc, sigW::erm; Chl^r, Spc^r, Erm^r	WN1244→WN1241; Erm^r/Chl^r, Spc^r
WN1267	trpC2, amyE::cat, sigD::kan, sigW::erm; Chl^r, Kan^r, Erm^r	WN1242→WN1244; Kan^r/Chl^r, Erm^r
WN1268	trpC2, amyE::cat, alsR::spc, sigD::kan, sigW::erm; Chl^r, Spc^r, Kan^r, Erm^r	WN1242→WN1266; Kan^r/Chl^r, Spc^r, Erm^r

Spc^r, spectinomycin resistant; Chl^s, chloramphenicol sensitive.

→, transformation from donor to recipient strain. The first marker after the semicolon denotes the selected marker. The marker(s) after the forward slash denotes the screened marker(s).