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Here's to the losers: evolvable residents accelerate the evolution of high-fitness invaders.
The American naturalist - 1 Jul 2015
Gifford Danna R, Toll-Riera Macarena, Kojadinovic Mila, MacLean R Craig
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Recent work has shown that evolvability plays a key role in determining the long-term population dynamics of asexual clones. However, simple considerations suggest that the evolvability of a focal lineage of bacteria should also be influenced by the evolvability of its competitors. First, evolvable competitors should accelerate evolution by impeding the fixation of the focal lineage through a clonal...
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