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Long-Term Experimental Evolution in Escherichia coli. I. Adaptation and Divergence During 2,0... 1991 2026 2002 2014 1.2k
  1. Long-Term Experimental Evolution in Escherichia coli. I. Adaptation and Divergence During 2,000 Generations (1991)
    Richard E. Lenski, Michael R. Rose et al. The American Naturalist
  2. Evolution experiments with microorganisms: the dynamics and genetic bases of adaptation (2003)
    Santiago F. Elena, Richard E. Lenski Nature Reviews Genetics
  3. Genome evolution and adaptation in a long-term experiment with Escherichia coli (2009)
    Jeffrey E. Barrick, Dong Yu et al. Nature
  4. The Black Queen Hypothesis: Evolution of Dependencies through Adaptive Gene Loss (2012)
    Jeffrey Morris, Richard E. Lenski et al. mBio
  5. Dynamics of adaptation and diversification: a 10,000-generation experiment with bacterial populations. (1994)
    Richard E. Lenski, Michael Travisano Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  6. Evolution of high mutation rates in experimental populations of E. coli (1997)
    Paul Sniegowski, Philip J. Gerrish et al. Nature
  7. The fate of competing beneficial mutations in an asexual population (1998)
    Philip J. Gerrish, Richard E. Lenski Genetica
  8. Adaptive evolution of highly mutable loci in pathogenic bacteria (1994)
    E. Richard Moxon, Paul B. Rainey et al. Current Biology
  9. Historical contingency and the evolution of a key innovation in an experimental population of Escherichia coli (2008)
    Zachary D. Blount, Christina Z. Borland et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  10. Experimental evolution (2012)
    Tadeusz J. Kawecki, Richard E. Lenski et al. Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  11. Does evolutionary theory need a rethink? (2014)
    Kevin N. Laland, Tobias Uller et al. Nature
  12. Genome dynamics during experimental evolution (2013)
    Jeffrey E. Barrick, Richard E. Lenski Nature Reviews Genetics
  13. The dynamics of molecular evolution over 60,000 generations (2017)
    Benjamin H. Good, Michael J. McDonald et al. Nature
  14. Negative Epistasis Between Beneficial Mutations in an Evolving Bacterial Population (2011)
    Duy M. Dinh, Dominique Schneider et al. Science
  15. Long-Term Dynamics of Adaptation in Asexual Populations (2013)
    Michael J. Wiser, Noah Ribeck et al. Science
  16. Contingency and determinism in evolution: Replaying life’s tape (2018)
    Zachary D. Blount, Richard E. Lenski et al. Science

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Stuart A. West 10240 8369 3904 290 24.1k
Makoto Kimura 27330 3634 27009 345 62.6k
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James J. Bull 9458 1663 5844 202 22.1k
Paul B. Rainey 5990 2578 5812 181 13.5k
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Bruce R. Levin 6264 1688 4661 154 15.3k
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