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A) Fitness of lacI and lacO1 mutants in the four evolution environments. Competitions were performed for lacI versus the ancestor, lacO1 versus the ancestor and lacI versus lacO1. As a control, we included the ancestor competed against itself. The red dotted line indicates a relative fitness of 1 (no fitness difference). 95% confidence intervals are shown for each competition (n≥8).
