Welcome to the E. coli Long-term Experimental Evolution Project Site

The LTEE Celebrates 50,000 Generations

This site is intended to serve three main functions:

To communicate findings and implications from our research with the public and other scientists.

findings and implications from our research with the public and other scientists. To share information among the group of researchers who are studying the long-term experimental populations of E. coli , and the various other lines derived from them.

among the group of researchers who are studying the long-term experimental populations of , and the various other lines derived from them. To provide an archive for information obtained from this work, including key published and some unpublished data.

This site has the following components:

Overview of the long-term experiment.

of the long-term experiment. Strain catalogs for the long-term experiment and other experiments derived from it.

for the long-term experiment and other experiments derived from it. Summary data from the long-term evolution experiment including relative fitness, cell size, colony morphology (photographic), and molecular genetics.

from the long-term evolution experiment including relative fitness, cell size, colony morphology (photographic), and molecular genetics. Genomics data including genome sequences of ancestral and evolved strains.

including genome sequences of ancestral and evolved strains. Standard protocols as well as media recipes and molecular tools.

as well as media recipes and molecular tools. Publication list including links to published abstracts (and some pdf files).

When referencing information from this site, please cite the original publication (when listed) or this web page (otherwise):

Lenski, R. E. (year). The E. coli long-term experimental evolution project site. http://myxo.css.msu.edu/ecoli

This site is supported by U.S. National Science Foundation grant DEB-0515729.