Reposted by Christopher Frøhlich
very cool. old questions, new methods = nuanced view of evolutionary landscape of selection, chance, and contingency
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The adaptive landscapes of three global Escherichia coli transcriptional regulators
Across three global Escherichia coli regulators, identical starting sequences can evolve toward many distinct strong-binding peaks, with chance, historical contingency, and evolutionary bias shaping w...