Comments for The Long-Term Evolution Experiment https://the-ltee.org Observing bacterial evolution in action since 1988 Thu, 30 Oct 2025 21:33:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 Comment on 80,000 Generations: New Olympic Record by How E. coli Rose to Prominence – Just One More Addendum (1|2) – Small Things Considered https://the-ltee.org/80000-generations-new-olympic-record/#comment-20 Thu, 30 Oct 2025 21:33:16 +0000 https://the-ltee.org/?p=1534#comment-20 […] have accumulated along the way (STC had a post on the LTEE experiment here; Rich Lenski recently an­nounced that genera­tion 80,000 has been exceeded, and the strains are still adapting to their growth […]

]]> Comment on Introduction by Studies that didn’t start bandwagons, even though you’d think they would have | Dynamic Ecology https://the-ltee.org/about/#comment-19 Tue, 02 Sep 2025 12:00:34 +0000 http://18.190.107.29/wordpress/?page_id=2#comment-19 […] opening bid is from evolutionary biology rather than ecology: the Long-Term Evolution Experiment. This is one of the most famous and successful experiments in the history of evolutionary biology, […]

]]> Comment on Introduction by Matters Microbial #96: Molecular Microbiology in High Schools https://the-ltee.org/about/#comment-17 Fri, 20 Jun 2025 00:03:15 +0000 http://18.190.107.29/wordpress/?page_id=2#comment-17 […] LTEE program that studies evolution in E. […]

]]> Comment on LTEE Kickoff at UT Austin by Ara+3: The Red Scare – The Long-Term Evolution Experiment https://the-ltee.org/ltee-kickoff-at-ut-austin/#comment-6 Mon, 09 Dec 2024 23:35:03 +0000 https://the-ltee.org/?p=1296#comment-6 […] LTEE moved to the Barrick Lab at UT Austin in 2022, and when I was hired as lab manager in July 2024, the […]

]]> Comment on 77,000 Generation Update: Population Switcheroo and Acinetobacter Interloper by 80,000 Generations: New Olympic Record – The Long-Term Evolution Experiment https://the-ltee.org/77000-generation-update-population-switcheroo-and-acinetobacter-interloper/#comment-5 Sun, 11 Aug 2024 15:54:24 +0000 https://the-ltee.org/?p=1351#comment-5 […] *One of the twelve populations (Ara–3) is 1,500 generations behind as discussed here. […]

]]> Comment on LTEE Kickoff at UT Austin by Is It All a Fluke? Lessons From Playing God in the Long-Term Evolution Experiment - by Brian Klaas - Behavioral Scientist https://the-ltee.org/ltee-kickoff-at-ut-austin/#comment-4 Tue, 23 Apr 2024 02:07:16 +0000 https://the-ltee.org/?p=1296#comment-4 […] the Long-Term Evolution Experiment continues under the direction of Jeffrey Barrick at the University of Texas […]

]]> Comment on An Update to the Changing Distribution of Fitness Effects by Friday links: preregistration prevalence, superforecasters, and more | Dynamic Ecology https://the-ltee.org/an-update-to-the-changing-distribution-of-fitness-effects/#comment-2 Fri, 16 Feb 2024 13:00:30 +0000 https://the-ltee.org/?p=1447#comment-2 […] Rich Lenski with the happy story of how two research teams independently studying the same topic using E. coli from the Long-Term Evolution Experiment ended up collaborating. […]

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