Identification and dynamics of a beneficial mutation in a long-term evolution experiment with <it>Escherichia coli</it>

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Twelve populations of <it>E. coli </it>were serially propagated for 20,000 generations in a glucose-supplemented minimal medium in order to study the dynamics of evolution. We sought to find and characterize one of the be...

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Main Authors: Lenski Richard E, Cooper Tim F, Stanek Mark T
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2009-12-01
Series:BMC Evolutionary Biology
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/9/302