Source record / 2008

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

Zachary D. Blount; Christina Z. Borland; Richard E. Lenski

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Publication

PNAS 105, 7899–7906 · 2008

DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0803151105

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Primary evolutionary experiment showing history-dependent access to a new phenotype.

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