Publications
Bajić D, Vila JCC, Blount ZD, Sánchez A. On the deformability of an empirical fitness landscape by microbial evolution. Submitted to Cell Theory, April, 2018.
Manuscript posted on BioRchiv.
Manuscript posted on BioRchiv.
Blount, Z.D. Replaying Evolution. American Scientist 105: 157 - 165. (2017)
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PhD Dissertation: The evolution of a key innovation in an experimental population of Escherichia coli: A tale of opportunity, contingency, and co-option. Michigan State University. Defended 3/16/2011.
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MS Thesis: Recovery and characterization of insertion sequence elements from natural isolates of the hyperthermophilic Archaeon Sulfolobus
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Blount, Z.D. & Grogan, D.W. Laboratory Exercises for General Microbiology: Bio 552. University of Cincinnati Department of Biological Sciences. Internal Publication. (2002)
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Blount, Z.D. & Grogan, D.W. New insertion sequences of Sulfolobus: functional properties and implications for genome evolution in hyperthermophilic archaea. Molecular Microbiology 55: 312 - 355 (2005).
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Blount, Z.D, Borland, C.Z. & Lenski, R.E. Historical contingency and the evolution of a key innovation in an experimental population of Escherichia coli. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 105: 7899 - 7906 (2008)
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Blount, Z. D., Barrick, J.E., Davidson, C. J. Davidson & Lenski, R.E. Genomic analysis of a key innovation in an experimental Escherichia coli population. Nature 489: 513 - 518 (2012).
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Blount, Z.D. The natural history of model organisms: the unexhausted potential of E. coli. eLife 2015;4:e05826 (2015).
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Turner, C.B., Blount, Z.D., Mitchell, D.H. & Lenski, R.E. (In preparaton). Evolution and Coexistence in Response to a Key Innovation in a Long-term Evolution Experiment with Escherichia coli.
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Turner, C.B., Blount, Z.D., & Lenski, R.E. Replaying Evolution to Test the Cause of Extinction of One Ecotype in an Experimentally Evolved Population. PLoS One DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0142050 (2015).
Data files for this paper have been deposited at Dryad.
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Data files for this paper have been deposited at Dryad.
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Lenski, R.E, Wiser, M.J., Blount, Z.D., Nahum, J.R., Morris, J.J, Zaman, L., Turner, C.B., Wade, B.D., Maddamsetti, R., Burmeister, A.R., Baird, E.J., Bundy, J., Grant, N., Card, K.J., Rowles, M., Weatherspoon, K., Papoulis, S.E., Sullivan, R., Clark, C., Mulka, J.S., Hajela, N. Sustained Fitness Gains and Variability in Fitness Trajectories in the Long-Term Evolution Experiment with Escherichia coli. Proceedings of the Royal Society, London B 282: 20152292.
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Blount, Z.D. History’s Windings in a Flask: Microbial Experiments into Evolutionary Contingency. In Pence, C. and Ramsey, G. Chance and Evolution, University of Chicago (2016).
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Quandt, E.M., Gollihar, J., Blount, Z.D., Ellington, A.D, Georgiou, G. & Barrick, J.E. (2015). Fine-Tuning Citrate Synthase Flux Potentiates and Refines Metabolic Innovation in the Lenski Evolution Experiment. eLife 2015;10.7554/eLife.09696.
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