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Contact: Denise Brehm
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Caption: This is a model of ecological differentiation in bacteria. Thin arrows represent recombination within or between ecologically associated populations. Thick colored arrows represent acquisition of adaptive alleles for different microhabitats.
Credit: John Kaufmann
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