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Historical contingency in the evolution of antibiotic resistance after decades of relaxed selection.
PLoS biology - 1 Oct 2019
Card Kyle J, LaBar Thomas, Gomez Jasper B, Lenski Richard E
Abstract excerpt
Populations often encounter changed environments that remove selection for the maintenance of particular phenotypic traits. The resulting genetic decay of those traits under relaxed selection reduces an organism's fitness in its prior environment. However, whether and how such decay alters the subsequent evolvability of a population upon restoration of selection for a previously diminished trait is not well...
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