Selection in a cyclical environment: possible impact of phenotypic lag on Darwinian fitness.

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We investigated the effect of generation time (as controlled by chemostat flow rate) and temporal variability in nutrient (arginine) availability on selection at a regulatory locus in Escherichia coli. We first determined the fitness conferred by argR(K12) (which regulates the arginine regulon) relative to argR(B) (a weak constitutive) in constant environments at several generation times across a range of...

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