E. coli long-term evolution experiment

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The E. coli long-term evolution experiment (LTEE) is an ongoing study in experimental evolution begun by Richard Lenski at the University of California, Irvine, carried on by Lenski and colleagues at Michigan State University, and currently overseen by Jeffrey Barrick at Michigan State University. It has been tracking genetic changes in 12 initially identical populations of asexual Escherichia coli bacteria since 24 February 1988. Lenski performed the 10,000th transfer of the experiment on March 13, 2017. The populations reached over 73,000 generations in early 2020, shortly before being frozen because of the COVID-19 pandemic. In September 2020, the LTEE experiment was resumed using the frozen stocks. When the populations reached 75,000 generations, the LTEE was transferred from the Lenski lab. In August 2024, the LTEE populations passed 80,000 generations in the Barrick lab. Over the course of the experiment, Lenski and his colleagues have reported a wide array of phenotypic and genotypic...

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