Engineered bacterium fuels evolution debate

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Patrick Forterre et al. Nature. 2019 Jul.

. 2019 Jul;571(7765):326.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-019-02163-w.

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Keywords: Evolution; Molecular biology.

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