Adaptive diversification in experimental populations of Escherichia coli

What processes contribute to the origin and maintenance of biological diversity? When populations occupy different environments, that have divergent ecological characteristics, natural selection can cause each population to adapt to its environment, resulting in phenotypic divergence between populat...

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Main Author: Tyerman, Jabus
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/17461