Culture plates in the laboratory of Gregory Lang (IMAGE)

Lehigh University

Culture plates in the laboratory of Gregory Lang

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Lang and his team have identified a nontransitive evolutionary sequence through a 1,000-generation yeast evolution experiment. In the experiment, an evolved clone outcompetes a recent ancestor but loses in direct competition with a distant ancestor.

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