Evolutionary rescue of a green alga kept in the dark.

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Chlamydomonas (Chlorophyta) can grow as a heterotroph on medium supplemented with acetate in the dark. A long-term experiment to investigate adaptation to dark conditions was set up with hundreds of replicate lines. Growth was initially slow, and most lines became extinct when transferred every f...

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