Article
Pervasive compensatory adaptation in Escherichia coli.
Proceedings. Biological sciences - 7 Mar 2000
Moore F B, Rozen D E, Lenski R E
Abstract excerpt
To investigate compensatory adaptation (CA), we used genotypes of Escherichia coli which were identical except for one or two deleterious mutations. We compared CA for (i) deleterious mutations with large versus small effects, (ii) genotypes carrying one versus two mutations, and (iii) pairs of deleterious mutations which interact in a multiplicative versus synergistic fashion. In all, we studied 14 different...
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