Long-term experimental evolution in <it>Escherichia coli</it>. X. Quantifying the fundamental and realized niche
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Twelve populations of the bacterium, <it>Escherichia coli</it>, adapted to a simple, glucose-limited, laboratory environment over 10,000 generations. As a consequence, these populations tended to lose functionality on alt...
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Language: | English |
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BMC
2002-08-01
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Series: | BMC Evolutionary Biology |
Online Access: | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/2/12 |