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Defined order of evolutionary adaptations: experimental evidence.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Jul 2008
Oxman Erez, Alon Uri, Dekel Erez
Abstract excerpt
Organisms often adapt to new conditions by means of beneficial mutations that become fixed in the population. Often, full adaptation requires several different mutations in the same cell, each of which may affect a different aspect of the behavior. Can one predict order in which these mutations become fixed? To address this, we experimentally studied evolution of Escherichia coli in a growth medium in which the...
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