Adaptive Evolution: Don't Fix What's Broken.

Curr Biol

Institute of Medical Biology (IMB), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A(∗)STAR), Singapore 138648, Singapore. Electronic address:

Published: February 2016

Evolution of budding yeast after the removal of an important component of the polarization machinery, BEM1, followed reproducible evolutionary trajectories governed by epistasis. Interestingly, cells restored polarization not by finding a substitute for Bem1 but by rendering its function dispensable.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2015.12.029DOI Listing

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