Natural selection is an evolutionary process in which individuals with survival-promoting traits reproduce at higher rates. These favorable traits become …
When the fitness of a trait is influenced by how common it is (i.e., its frequency) relative to different traits within a population, this is referred to …
Lignocellulosic biomass is an abundant, renewable feedstock useful for production of fuel-grade ethanol and other bio-products. Pretreatment and enzyme …
Multicopy plasmids are extremely abundant in prokaryotes but their role in bacterial evolution remains poorly understood. We recently showed that the …
