A cheater founds the winning lineages during evolution of a novel metabolic pathway
Karl A. Widney, Lauren C. Phillips, Leo M. Rusch, Shelley D. Copley
The paper evolves a novel metabolic pathway in E. coli by identifying mutations that increase PLP accumulation and reveals a cheater strain's role in lineage dominance.
bioRxiv · Jan 26, 2025 · PreprintEvolutionary Biology