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Convergence and Divergence in a Long-Term Experiment with Bacteria.

The American naturalist - 1 Aug 2017

Lenski Richard E

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Suitably designed experiments offer the possibility of quantifying evolutionary convergence because the fraction of replicate populations that converge is known. Here I review an experiment with Escherichia coli, in which 12 populations were founded from the same ancestral strain and have evolved for almost 30 years and more than 65,000 generations under the same conditions. The tension between divergence and...

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PMID: 28731830
DOI: 10.1086/691209

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