Core Genes Evolve Rapidly in the Long-term Evolution Experiment with Escherichia coli
R. Maddamsetti, P. J. Hatcher, A. G. Green, B. L. Williams, D. S. Marks, R. E. Lenski
The paper examines core gene evolution in E. coli, finding they accumulate more nonsynonymous mutations in lab experiments but are more conserved in nature.
bioRxiv · Mar 1, 2016Evolutionary Biology