Publications
15. Jagdish T, Morris JJ, Wade BD, Blount ZD (In press). Probing the Deep Genetic Basis of a Novel Trait in Escherichia coli.
14. Blount ZD, Lenski RE, Losos JB (2018). Contingency and Determinism in Evolution: ‘Replaying the Tape of Life’. Science. Invited review. In press.
13. Bajić D, Vila JCC, Blount ZD, Sánchez A (2018). On the deformability of an empirical fitness landscape by microbial evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (USA). In press.
12. Blount ZD (2017). Replaying Evolution. American Scientist, 105: 157 – 165.
- Cover article: http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/popup_onthecover.aspx?id=126
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11. Blount ZD (2016). History’s Windings in a Flask: Microbial Experiments into Evolutionary Contingency. Pp. 244 – 263 in Ramsey G and Pence C (ed.) Chance and Evolution, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
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10. Blount ZD (2016). Bacterial Evolution. Pp.97 – 101 in Marsh TL and Viswanathan P Introductory Laboratory for General and Allied Health Microbiology, MMG 302. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Internal publication.
9. Blount ZD (2016). A Case Study in Evolutionary Contingency. Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, C. 58: 82 – 92.
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8. Lenski RE, Wiser MJ, Ribeck N, Blount ZD, Nahum JR, Morris JJ, Zaman L, Turner CB, Wade BD, Maddamsetti R, Burmeister AR, Baird EJ, Bundy J, Grant N, Card KJ, Rowles M, Weatherspoon K, Papoulis SE, Sullivan R, Clark C, Mulka JS, Hajela N (2015). Sustained Fitness Gains and Variability in Fitness Trajectories in the Long-Term Evolution Experiment with Escherichia coli. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 282: 20152292.
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8. Lenski RE, Wiser MJ, Ribeck N, Blount ZD, Nahum JR, Morris JJ, Zaman L, Turner CB, Wade BD, Maddamsetti R, Burmeister AR, Baird EJ, Bundy J, Grant N, Card KJ, Rowles M, Weatherspoon K, Papoulis SE, Sullivan R, Clark C, Mulka JS, Hajela N (2015). Sustained Fitness Gains and Variability in Fitness Trajectories in the Long-Term Evolution Experiment with Escherichia coli. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 282: 20152292.
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7. Turner CB, Blount ZD, Lenski RE (2015). Replaying Evolution to Test the Cause of Extinction of One Ecotype in an Experimentally Evolved Population. PLOS One, 10: e0142050.
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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6. Quandt EM, Gollihar J, Blount ZD, Ellington AD, Georgiou G, Barrick JE (2015). Fine-Tuning Citrate Synthase Flux Potentiates and Refines Evolution of a Metabolic Innovation in Escherichia coli. eLife 2015;10.7554/eLife.09696
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5. Blount ZD (2015). The Unexhausted Potential of E. coli. eLife 2015;4:e05826. Invited review.
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4. Blount ZD, Barrick JE, Davidson CJ, Lenski RE (2012). Genomic Analysis of a Key Innovation in an Experimental E. coli Population. Nature, 489: 513 – 518.
- 353 citations as of September 19, 2018
- Faculty of 1000 recommendation
- Listed by Science News as one of the top 25 science stories of 2012
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3. Blount ZD, Borland CZ, Lenski RE (2008). Historical Contingency in the Evolution of a Key Innovation in an Experimental Population of Escherichia coli. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA), 105: 7899 - 7906.
- 615 citations as of September 19, 2018
- Faculty of 1000 recommendation
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2. Blount ZD, Grogan DW (2005). New Insertion Sequences of Sulfolobus: Functional Properties and Implications for Genome Evolution in Hyperthermophilic Archaea. Molecular Microbiology, 55: 312 – 325.
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1. Blount ZD, Grogan DW (2002). Laboratory Exercises for Microbiology: Biology 552. Cincinnati, OH: University of Cincinnati Department of Biological Sciences, Internal Publication.
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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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