Relationship between fitness and heterogeneity in exponentially growing microbial populations.

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Despite major environmental and genetic differences, microbial metabolic networks are known to generate consistent physiological outcomes across vastly different organisms. This remarkable robustness suggests that, at least in bacteria, metabolic activity may be guided by universal principles. The constrained optimization of evolutionarily motivated objective functions, such as the growth rate, has emerged as the...

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