New Article (2025): Experimental evolution of evolvability

17 March 2025

New Article (2025): Experimental evolution of evolvability

Michael Barnett, Lena Meister and Paul B. Rainey provide evidence of a selective mechanism acting on bacteria that increases their evolvability.  Abstract: Can the capacity to evolve be selected by natural selection for greater ability to evolve? Barnett et al. designed experiments in which lineages of bacteria cycled between two selective environments (see the Perspective by […]

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