Mutational reversions during adaptive protein evolution.

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Adaptation is often regarded as the sequential fixation of individually, intrinsically beneficial mutations. Contrary to this expectation, we find a surprisingly large number of evolutionary trajectories on which natural selection first favors a mutation, then favors its removal, and later still favors its ultimate restoration during the course of antibiotic resistance evolution. The existence of reversion...

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