Sustained fitness gains and variability in fitness trajectories in the long-term evolution experiment with Escherichia coli
Richard E Lenski, Michael J Wiser, Noah Ribeck, Zachary D Blount, Joshua R Nahum, James Jeffrey Morris, Luis Zaman, Caroline B Turner, Brian D Wade, Rohan Maddamsetti, Alita R Burmeister, Elizabeth J Baird, Jay Bundy, Nkrumah A Grant, Kyle J Card, , Neerja Hajela
The paper extends a previous study on Escherichia coli evolution, showing that fitness continues to increase over 60,000 generations with power-law dynamics and population-specific variability.
bioRxiv · Sep 22, 2015Evolutionary Biology