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Epistatic interactions determine the mutational pathways and coexistence of lineages in clonal Escherichia coli populations.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Sept 2013
Maharjan Ram Prasad, Ferenci Thomas
Abstract excerpt
Understanding how diversity emerges in a single niche is not fully understood. Rugged fitness landscapes and epistasis between beneficial mutations could explain coexistence among emerging lineages. To provide an experimental test of this notion, we investigated epistasis among four pleiotropic mutations in rpoS, mglD, malT, and hfq present in two coexisting lineages that repeatedly fixed in experimental...
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