Historical contingency and the evolution of a key innovation in an experimental population of Escherichia coli ZD Blount, CZ Borland, RE Lenski Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105 (23), 7899-7906, 2008 | 1076 | 2008 |
Genomic analysis of a key innovation in an experimental Escherichia coli population ZD Blount, JE Barrick, CJ Davidson, RE Lenski Nature 489 (7417), 513-518, 2012 | 673 | 2012 |
The unexhausted potential of E. coli ZD Blount elife 4, e05826, 2015 | 595 | 2015 |
Contingency and Determinism in Evolution: Replaying Life's Tape ZD Blount, RE Lenski, JB Losos Science 362 (6415), eaam5979, 2018 | 527 | 2018 |
Sustained fitness gains and variability in fitness trajectories in the long-term evolution experiment with Escherichia coli RE Lenski, MJ Wiser, N Ribeck, ZD Blount, JR Nahum, JJ Morris, ... Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 282 (1821), 20152292, 2015 | 164 | 2015 |
Fine-tuning citrate synthase flux potentiates and refines metabolic innovation in the Lenski evolution experiment EM Quandt, J Gollihar, ZD Blount, AD Ellington, G Georgiou, JE Barrick Elife 4, e09696, 2015 | 101 | 2015 |
On the deformability of an empirical fitness landscape by microbial evolution D Bajić, JCC Vila, ZD Blount, A Sanchez Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA), 2018 | 65 | 2018 |
New insertion sequences of Sulfolobus: functional properties and implications for genome evolution in hyperthermophilic archaea ZD Blount, DW Grogan Molecular Microbiology 55 (1), 312-325, 2005 | 52 | 2005 |
Replaying evolution to test the cause of extinction of one ecotype in an experimentally evolved population CB Turner, ZD Blount, RE Lenski PLoS One 10 (11), e0142050, 2015 | 36 | 2015 |
Genomic and phenotypic evolution of Escherichia coli in a novel citrate-only resource environment ZD Blount, R Maddamsetti, NA Grant, ST Ahmed, T Jagdish, ... eLife 9, e55414, 2020 | 32 | 2020 |
A case study in evolutionary contingency ZD Blount Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and …, 2016 | 32 | 2016 |
Evolution of a cross-feeding interaction following a key innovation in a long-term evolution experiment with Escherichia coli CB Turner, ZD Blount, DH Mitchell, RE Lenski Microbiology 169 (8), 001390, 2023 | 31 | 2023 |
Replaying evolution ZD Blount American Scientist 105 (3), 156-165, 2017 | 9 | 2017 |
History’s windings in a flask: Microbial experiments into evolutionary contingency ZD Blount Chance in evolution, 244-62, 2016 | 9 | 2016 |
Daily transfers, archiving populations, and measuring fitness in the Long-Term Evolution Experiment with Escherichia coli JE Barrick, ZD Blount, DM Lake, JH Dwenger, JE Chavarria-Palma, ... JoVE (Journal of Visualized Experiments), e65342, 2023 | 6 | 2023 |
Probing the Deep Genetic Basis of a Novel Trait in Escherichia coli T Jagdish, JJ Morris, BD Wade, ZD Blount Evolution in Action: Past, Present, Future, 107 - 122, 2020 | 4 | 2020 |
LTEE Media Recipes JE Chavarria-Palma, ZD Blount, JE Barrick | | 2024 |
Copying Archived LTEE Samples ZD Blount, JE Barrick | | 2023 |
The Evolution of a Key Innovation in an Experimental Population of Escherichia Coli: A Tale of Opportunity, Contingency, and Co-option ZD Blount Michigan State University. Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, 2011 | | 2011 |
Recovery and characterization of insertion sequence elements from natural isolates of the hyperthermophilic archaeon Sulfolobus ZD Blount University of Cincinnati, 2003 | | 2003 |