Climb Every Mountain?
- 19 December 2003
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 302 (5653) , 2074-2075
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1093165
Abstract
Evolutionary biologists have long argued that adaptation to a particular environmental niche should constrain a population9s ability to survive in other niches. In their Perspective, Elena and Sanjuán discuss new evolution experiments with populations of the bacterium Pseudomonas fluorescens ( Buckling et al.). These experiments provide evidence that as a bacterial population becomes a niche specialist, it is less able to adapt to other niches.Keywords
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