Long-Term Experimental Evolution in Escherichia coli. I. Adaptation and Divergence During 2,000 Generations

1 December 1991

journal article
research article
Published by University of Chicago Press in The American Naturalist

Vol. 138 (6) , 1315-1341
https://doi.org/10.1086/285289

Abstract

We assess the degree to which adaptation to a uniform environment among independently evolving asexual populations is associated with increasing divergence of those populations. In addition, we are...