@Travis1syke @RalbrechtTroy @JaTapps De novo mutations are adaptations, I'm not talking about change in behaviour, I'm talking about adapting to your environment on the genome level. We have examples of this, we have observed it. E-Coli citrate consumption
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RT @BioMedCentral: A @BMCBiology study evolved E. coli populations up to 500 generations. It finds that when mutational input is increased…
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A @BMCBiology study evolved E. coli populations up to 500 generations. It finds that when mutational input is increased by an ancestral defect in DNA repair, the spectrum of high-frequency beneficial mutations in a constant environment is narrow. https://t
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RT @m_kinners: It's finally here! The latest installment in a decades-old story about hunger, mutation and specialization in E. coli! With…