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Persistent trade-offs balance competition and colonization across centuries

2025-11-16

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Microbial competition drives rapid adaptation, often forcing organisms to specialize in new ecological niches. Adaptations that improve competitive ability can reduce performance in other environments creating trade-offs. Whether such trade-offs persist in nature—or are eroded as lineages adapt through compensatory changes—remains largely unknown. Here we show that a trade-off between competitive ability and host...

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Literature Corpus work: 93f235cd-4b73-5bfe-a511-fa507a411eb1
DOI: 10.1101/2025.11.16.688059

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