Replaying Evolution to Test the Cause of Extinction of One Ecotype in an Experimentally Evolved Population
Caroline B. Turner, Zachary D. Blount, Richard E. Lenski
The paper replays an evolutionary experiment to determine if the extinction of a bacterial ecotype was deterministic or due to chance, finding it was likely caused by an unexpected environmental perturbation.
bioRxiv · Jul 19, 2015Evolutionary Biology