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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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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |