BMC Evolutionary Biology

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Long-term experimental evolution in Escherichia coli. XI. Rejection of non-transitive interactions as cause of declining rate of adaptation

J Arjan GM de Visser1* and Richard E Lenski2

Author Affiliations

1 Laboratory of Genetics, Wageningen University, Arboretumlaan 4, 6703 BD Wageningen, The Netherlands

2 Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824-4320, USA

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BMC Evolutionary Biology 2002, 2:19 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-2-19

Published: 30 October 2002

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Additional File 1:

Fitness values and defining features of the transitive and non-transitive models The values correspond to the trajectories shown in Figure 2. The values are colour-coded to show how the two models were constructed from previous data.

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