Evolutionary BiologybioRxiv
Evolution and coexistence in response to a key innovation in a long-term evolution experiment with Escherichia coli
Caroline B. Turner, Zachary D. Blount, Daniel H. Mitchell, Richard E. Lenski
The paper examines how the evolution of citrate consumption in E. coli altered ecosystem dynamics by enabling coexistence between Cit+ and Cit- clades through cross-feeding.
DOI 10.1099/mic.0.001390