Hunger artists: yeast adapted to carbon limitation show trade-offs under carbon sufficiency.

As organisms adaptively evolve to a new environment, selection results in the improvement of certain traits, bringing about an increase in fitness. Trade-offs may result from this process if function in other traits is reduced in alternative environments either by the adaptive mutations themselves o...

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Main Authors: Jared W Wenger, Jeffrey Piotrowski, Saisubramanian Nagarajan, Kami Chiotti, Gavin Sherlock, Frank Rosenzweig
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-08-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3150441?pdf=render

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