Richard Lenski's long-term E. coli experiments showed that - The bacteria could have acquired the new ability to digest citrate via horizontal gene transfer. - Each time a new set of bacterial populations was allowed to grow under the same conditions, some citrate digesting strains evolved. - The bacteria that evolved the ability to digest citrate were outcompeted by those who were feeding on the better food source of glucose. - The bacteria required several mutations and a large DNA duplication before they were able to digest citrate in the presence of oxygen.
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