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A seven-membered microbial community capable of utilising the herbicide Dalapon has been isolated by continuous-flow enrichment culture. The composition of this community has remained remarkably stable over thousands of hours in a Dalapon-limited chemostat. During this period, however, one member of the community, Pseudomonas putida, acquired the ability to grow on Dalapon through the evolution of an extant dehalogenase.
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Senior, E., Bull, A. & Slater, J. Enzyme evolution in a microbial community growing on the herbicide Dalapon. Nature 263, 476–479 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1038/263476a0
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