| 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 | 1163 | 2008 |
| The unexhausted potential of E. coli ZD Blount elife 4, e05826, 2015 | 767 | 2015 |
| 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 | 744 | 2012 |
| Contingency and Determinism in Evolution: Replaying Life's Tape ZD Blount, RE Lenski, JB Losos Science 362 (6415), eaam5979, 2018 | 671 | 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 | 177 | 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 | 107 | 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 | 80 | 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 | 53 | 2005 |
| 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 | 41 | 2020 |
| 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 | 39 | 2015 |
| 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 | 35 | 2023 |
| A case study in evolutionary contingency ZD Blount Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and …, 2016 | 34 | 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, ... Journal of Visualized Experiments, 2023 | 11 | 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, 244-263, 2016 | 9 | 2016 |
| 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 | 5 | 2020 |
| A plasmid with the blaCTX-M gene enhances the fitness of Escherichia coli strains under laboratory conditions L López, D Calderón, L Salinas, JP Graham, ZD Blount, G Trueba Microbiology 171 (1), 001525, 2025 | 2 | 2025 |
| LTEE Media Recipes_PR_Mg2+ _correction JE Chavarria-Palma, ZD Blount, JE Barrick | | 2025 |
| Adaptability to climate change is difficult to predict ZD Blount Nature Ecology & Evolution, 1-2, 2025 | | 2025 |
| LTEE Media Recipes JE Chavarria-Palma, ZD Blount, JE Barrick | | 2024 |
Richard LenskiMicrobiology / EEB / Michigan State UniversityVerified email at msu.edu
