#ltee — Public Fediverse posts

Where do new genes come from? @HassanZaman91 @barricklab &co show that within the timescale of the #LTEE experiment, the co-option of #promoters, mainly from #TransposableElements, serves as the major source of raw material for #DeNovoGenes #PLOSBiology https://plos.io/4a8p6DT

Richard Lenski's Long-Term Evolution Experiment with E. coli hit the 36 year mark on February 24th! May it carry on to see the year 2060!!
#evolution #EvolutionaryBiology #biology #LTEE

https://the-ltee.org/

The #LTEE now has a companion! So exciting!!
#MuLTEE #multicellularity #evolution #biology #EvolutionaryBiology #ExperimentalEvolution

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06052-1

@RELenski

STC : Happy 35th birthday to the #LTEE

sorry for the 5 surplus candles on the cake, but you will need them soon enough 😜

#evolution #science #microbiology #experiments #time #TimeTravel

@RELenski Such a neat use of the #LTEE!

Richard Lenski (at his blog) on S.J Gould & the #LTEE

"Of course, Gould’s experiment is impossible at a paleo-planetary scale. But at a more modest scale, one of the main goals of the LTEE is to study the repeatability of evolution. And so, I often quote from Wonderful Life when I’m giving talks about the experiment. Thus, it’s only natural that someone might wonder if Gould’s book had inspired me to start the LTEE."
#Evolution

https://telliamedrevisited.wordpress.com/2022/11/22/its-a-wonderful-life/