Historical Contingency Causes Divergence in Adaptive Expression of the lac Operon
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DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msab077
Abstract: Abstract Populations of Escherichia coli selected in constant and fluctuating environments containing lactose often adapt by substituting mutations in the lacI repressor that cause constitutive expression of the lac operon. These mutations occur at a… read more here.
Keywords: repressor; lac operon; historical contingency; expression lac ... See more keywords