Evolution recovers the fitness of Acinetobacter baylyi strains with large deletions through mutations in deletion-specific targets and global post-transcriptional regulators

• Isaac Gifford ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Isaac Gifford, Gabriel A. Suárez

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Biosciences, Center for Systems and Synthetic Biology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0449-5621

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• Gabriel A. Suárez ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Isaac Gifford, Gabriel A. Suárez

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Biosciences, Center for Systems and Synthetic Biology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America

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• Jeffrey E. Barrick

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: jbarrick@cm.utexas.edu

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Biosciences, Center for Systems and Synthetic Biology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0888-7358

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