Legendary bacterial evolution experiment enters new era - Nature.com

A laboratory has been growing 12 populations of E. coli since 1988 — this year the cultures will get a new custodian.

E. coli cells used in the long-term evolution experiment (LTEE) on an agar plate.Credit: Jeffrey Barrick On 24 February 1988, evolutionary biologist Richard Lenski filled 12 flasks with sugary growt… [+8431 chars]

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