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Antibiotic resistance: Evolution without trade-offs

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Artificial selection for antibiotic resistance in microorganisms reveals why and how expected evolutionary trade-offs between population growth rate and population carrying capacity are not observed in resource-limited environments, with ‘trade-ups’ occurring instead.

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Figure 1: The superorganism phenomenon across environments.

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  1. David Reznick is in the Department of Biology, University of California, Riverside, California 92521, USA.,

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  2. Kayla King is in the Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK.,

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Reznick, D., King, K. Antibiotic resistance: Evolution without trade-offs. Nat Ecol Evol 1, 0066 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-016-0066

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