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Revisiting the Design of the Long-Term Evolution Experiment with Escherichia coli.
Journal of molecular evolution - 1 Jun 2023
Lenski Richard E
Abstract excerpt
The long-term evolution experiment (LTEE) with Escherichia coli began in 1988 and it continues to this day, with its 12 populations having recently reached 75,000 generations of evolution in a simple, well-controlled environment. The LTEE was designed to explore open-ended questions about the dynamics and repeatability of phenotypic and genetic evolution. Here I discuss various aspects of the LTEE's experimental...
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