Bacterial evolution: Jittery genomes.
Recent studies of long-term experimental populations of bacteria have revealed the actual progression of evolutionary change and how rates of phenotypic evolution can be decoupled from rates of genomic evolution.
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Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA.
D005075:Biological Evolution; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000235:genetics* / Q000254:growth & development; D009154:Mutation; D013997:Time Factors