Historical contingency and the evolution of a key innovation in an experimental population of Escherichia coli

By Zachary D. Blount, C. Borland, Richard E. Lenski. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2008

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Subfields: Genetics, Molecular Biology

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