Coexisting ecotypes in long-term evolution emerged from interacting trade-offs

Abstract Evolution of complex communities of coexisting microbes remains poorly understood. The long-term evolution experiment on Escherichia coli (LTEE) revealed the spontaneous emergence of stable coexistence of multiple ecotypes, which persisted for more than 14,000 generations of continuous evol...

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Main Authors: Avik Mukherjee, Jade Ealy, Yanqing Huang, Nina Catherine Benites, Mark Polk, Markus Basan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-06-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-39471-9