Article
Cost of adaptation and fitness effects of beneficial mutations in Pseudomonas fluorescens.
Genetics - 1 Nov 2011
Bataillon Thomas, Zhang Tianyi, Kassen Rees
Abstract excerpt
Adaptations are constructed through the sequential substitution of beneficial mutations by natural selection. However, the rarity of beneficial mutations has precluded efforts to describe even their most basic properties. Do beneficial mutations typically confer small or large fitness gains? Are...
Topics
- Adaptation, Physiological
- Carbon
- Computational Biology
- DNA, Bacterial
- Databases, Factual
- Gene-Environment Interaction
- Genetic Fitness
- Mutation
- Pseudomonas fluorescens