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Published online 10 August 2007 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news070806-12
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The best is the enemy of the good
Slightly helpful mutations in E. coli much more plentiful than thought.
Beneficial mutations in the bacterium Escherichia coli occur 1,000 times more frequently than previously predicted, according to research from a group in Portugal.
In a study of _E.
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