The spread of a beneficial mutation in experimental bacterial populations: the influence of the environment and genotype on the fixation of rpoS mutations.

Abstract excerpt

The spread of beneficial mutations through populations is at the core of evolutionary change. A long-standing hindrance to understanding mutational sweeps was that beneficial mutations have been slow to be identified, even in commonly studied experimental populations. The lack of information on w...

Topics

• Bacterial Proteins
• Escherichia coli
• Genotype
• Mutation
• Sigma Factor