Frequent, infinitesimal bottlenecks maximize the rate of microbial adaptation.

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Serial passaging is a fundamental technique in experimental evolution. The choice of bottleneck severity and frequency poses a dilemma: longer growth periods allow beneficial mutants to arise and grow over more generations, but simultaneously necessitate more severe bottlenecks with a higher risk of those same mutations being lost. Short growth periods require less severe bottlenecks, but come at the cost of less...

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