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Bacterial adaptation is constrained in complex communities.
Nature communications - 6 Feb 2020
Scheuerl Thomas, Hopkins Meirion, Nowell Reuben W, Rivett Damian W, Barraclough Timothy G, Bell Thomas
Abstract excerpt
A major unresolved question is how bacteria living in complex communities respond to environmental changes. In communities, biotic interactions may either facilitate or constrain evolution depending on whether the interactions expand or contract the range of ecological opportunities. A fundamental challenge is to understand how the surrounding biotic community modifies evolutionary trajectories as species adapt...
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