Richard Lenski (along with Zachary Blount and Chris Borland) has just published his inaugural article in PNAS describing the evolution of the ability to grow on citrate in one of the long-term lines, which is interesting not only because it took ~30,000 generations to acquire this huge advantage, but also because this is a decidedly [...]
Entries from June 2008
Historical contingency and the evolution of novelty
June 6th, 2008 · No Comments
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