<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news/link-changing-fitness-effects-in-long-term-evolution-experiment.aspx" dsn="blogs"><title>Changing fitness effects in long-term evolution experiment</title><description><span>With a team of researchers from Spain, France, and Harvard, researcher Richard Lenski and colleagues used high-throughput genomic methods to analyze the fitness effects of hundreds of thousands of mutations in the </span><em>E. coli</em><span> bacteria, and how those effects changed over time as the experiment proceeded.</span></description><pubDate>01/30/2024</pubDate><image><img src="/_assets/images/news/2024/preview_richard_lenski.jpg" alt="head and shoulders photo of Richard Lenski"/></image><externalNewsArticleLink>https://eeb.msu.edu/news/changing-fitness-effects-in-long-term-evolution-experiment%20.aspx</externalNewsArticleLink></item>