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EXPERIMENTAL EVOLUTION

Life on the frontline reveals constraints

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The existence of trade-offs between traits under selection is a fundamental concept in evolutionary biology. Analysis of a densely sampled collection of adaptive mutations in yeast reveals that no single mutation can allow it to overcome detected trade-offs between key traits under selection.

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Fig. 1: Trade-offs between traits in yeast.

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