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Adaptation limits ecological diversification and promotes ecological tinkering during the competition for substitutable resources

Microbial communities can evade competitive exclusion by diversifying into distinct ecological niches. This spontaneous diversification often occurs amid a backdrop of directional selection on other microbial traits, where competitive exclusion would normally apply. Yet despite their empirical relev...

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Published in:Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Main Authors: Good, Benjamin H., Martis, Stephen, Hallatschek, Oskar
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: National Academy of Sciences 2018
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6217437/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30322918
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1807530115
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