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Quantifying the local adaptive landscape of a nascent bacterial community.
Nature communications - 16 Jan 2023
Ascensao Joao A, Wetmore Kelly M, Good Benjamin H, Arkin Adam P, Hallatschek Oskar
Abstract excerpt
The fitness effects of all possible mutations available to an organism largely shape the dynamics of evolutionary adaptation. Yet, whether and how this adaptive landscape changes over evolutionary times, especially upon ecological diversification and changes in community composition, remains poorly understood. We sought to fill this gap by analyzing a stable community of two closely related ecotypes ("L" and "S")...
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