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Competition and the origins of novelty: experimental evolution of niche-width expansion in a virus.
Biology letters - 23 Feb 2013
Bono Lisa M, Gensel Catharine L, Pfennig David W, Burch Christina L
Abstract excerpt
Competition for resources has long been viewed as a key agent of divergent selection. Theory holds that populations facing severe intraspecific competition will tend to use a wider range of resources, possibly even using entirely novel resources that are less in demand. Yet, there have been few experimental tests of these ideas. Using the bacterial virus (bacteriophage) 6 as a model system, we examined whether...
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