Context-dependent adaptation in structured environments.

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Adaptive evolution often leads to niche specialization, but successful colonization of a new niche can depend as much on ecological context as on genetic change. This is especially true in spatially structured environments, where the construction of habitat and order of arrival of mutants shape evolutionary outcomes. In static broth cultures, the air-liquid interface (ALI) provides a high-oxygen niche typically...

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