A Comparison of Methods to Measure Fitness in Escherichia coli.

PLoS One · 2015 · PMC4427439 · PMID 25961572

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There is a highly significant tendency for the coefficient of variation to increase in later generations, as the evolving bacteria become progressively more fit, as discussed in the Introduction.

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