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Arrhythmia of tempo and mode

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An exercise in experimental evolution using bacteria has been running for more than 20 years and 40,000 generations. The results to date provide a glimpse of a new world, and are cause for both delight and unease.

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Figure 1: Discordance in the coupling between genomic and adaptive evolution.

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  1. Paul B. Rainey is at the New Zealand Institute for Advanced Study, and the Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology and Evolution, Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand. p.b.rainey@massey.ac.nz,

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Rainey, P. Arrhythmia of tempo and mode. Nature 461, 1219–1221 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/4611219a

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