Trade-offs between microbial growth phases lead to frequency-dependent and non-transitive selection
Trade-offs between microbial growth phases lead to frequency-dependent and non-transitive selection
Mutations in a microbial population can increase the frequency of a genotype not only by increasing its exponential growth rate, but also by decreasing its lag time or adjusting the yield (resource efficiency). The contribution of multiple life-history traits to selection is a critical question for evolutionary biology as we …