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 non-E.coli-like thing to do.
I encourage you all to read the following:
http://scienceblogs.com/loom/2008/06/02/a_new_step_in_evolution.php
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