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| − | Evolution of Cit Function in Population Ara-3. The LTEE populations are transferred daily into fresh medium, and the turbidity of each is checked visually at that time. | + | Evolution of Cit Function in Population Ara-3. The LTEE populations are transferred daily into fresh medium, and the turbidity of each is checked visually at that time. ... |
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| − | Owing to the low concentration of glucose in DM25 medium...
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| − | DATA ON SPECIFIC CONCENTRATIONS USED?<br>
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| − | A Lenski defender says: From the first page of the paper in question (Blount, Z. D., C. Z. Borland, and R. E. Lenski. 2008. Historical contingency and the evolution of a key innovation in an experimental population of Escherichia coli. PNAS, USA 105:7899-7906):
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| − | address the repeatability of evolutionary trajectories and outcomes,
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| − | the long-term evolution experiment (LTEE) with Escherichia
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| − | coli was started in 1988 with the founding of 12 populations
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| − | from the same clone (2). These populations were initially
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| − | identical except for a neutral marker that distinguished six lines
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| − | from six others. They have since been propagated by daily 1:100
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| − | serial transfer in DM25, a minimal medium containing <b>25
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| − | mg/liter glucose</b> as the limiting resource (2, 22)."--[[User:Argon|Argon]] 11:42, 30 June 2008 (EDT)
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| − | WHERE IS THE DATA MEASURING OR CONFIRMING THE 25 MG/LITER GLUCOSE? DID THAT CONCENTRATION EVER CHANGE?
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| − | A weighed amount of glucose is mixed into the medium. The paper states that the concentration listed was used in the media throughout the continuous subculturing experiment.
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