The evolution of a pleiotropic fitness tradeoff in Pseudomonas fluorescens.

The evolution of ecological specialization is expected to carry a cost, due to either antagonistic pleiotropy or mutation accumulation. In general, it has been difficult to distinguish between these two possibilities. Here, we demonstrate that the experimental evolution of niche-specialist genotypes...

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Main Authors: MacLean, R, Bell, G, Rainey, P
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2004