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From: Hidden paths to endless forms most wonderful: Complexity of bacterial motility shapes diversification of latent phenotypes

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Alternative-surface swarming correlates positively with selective-surface swarming among single-motility-system populations but not dual-motility populations. Plotted values represent means of evolved/ancestral swarming-rate ratios across at least three replicate experiments. Dashed lines represent the linear model fit. p and rho values correspond to Spearman correlation tests. The positive correlation in single-system populations remains significant when the outlier is removed (P = 0.003 rho = 0.53, see Additional file 1, Fig. S6)

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