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In adaptive laboratory evolution (ALE) an organism is cultured for many generations under specific conditions of interest. In the process, the fitness (typically growth rate) is improved as beneficial mutations are selected for and accumulate, and metabolism is rewired to facilitate the enhanced phenotype.
