Multicopy plasmids allow bacteria to escape from fitness trade-offs during evolutionary innovation
Understanding the mechanisms governing innovation is a central element of evolutionary theory. Novel traits usually arise through mutations in existing genes, but trade-offs between new and ancestral protein functions are pervasive and constrain the evolution of innovation. Classical models posit th...
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Springer Nature
2018
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