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Innovation in an E. coli evolution experiment is contingent on maintaining adaptive potential until competition subsides

Key innovations are disruptive evolutionary events that enable a species to escape constraints and rapidly diversify. After 15 years of the Lenski long-term evolution experiment with Escherichia coli, cells in one of the twelve populations evolved the ability to utilize citrate, an abundant but prev...

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Autores principales: Leon, Dacia, D'Alton, Simon, Quandt, Erik M., Barrick, Jeffrey E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5918244/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29649242
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1007348