NEW NUTRIENT USE. “The LTEE uses a glucose-limited medium, but citrate — another nutrient that E. coli generally cannot use — has also been present throughout the experiment. The ability to use this abundant but untapped resource evolved after 30,000 generations (~15 years) and in only one of the 12 replicate populations.”
https://www.nature.com/articles/nrg3564
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022