Spatial structure of ecological opportunity drives adaptation in a bacterium.

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Abundant ecological opportunity is thought to drive adaptation and diversification. The presence of multiple opportunities leads to divergent selection, which can slow adaptation when niche-specific beneficial mutations have antagonistically pleiotropic effects. Alternately, competition for multiple opportunities can generate divergent selection, which leads to high rates of adaptive differentiation. Which...

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