Environment determines evolutionary trajectory in a constrained phenotypic space
D. T. Fraebel, H. Mickalide, D. Schnitkey, J. Merritt, T. E. Kuhlman, S. Kuehn
The paper shows that environmental constraints shape evolutionary trajectories in Escherichia coli by mediating trade-offs between swimming speed and growth rate through antagonistic pleiotropy.
bioRxiv · Dec 27, 2016Evolutionary Biology