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Population Bottlenecks Strongly Influence the Evolutionary Trajectory to Fluoroquinolone Resistance in Escherichia coli.
Molecular biology and evolution - 1 Jun 2020
Garoff Linnéa, Pietsch Franziska, Huseby Douglas L, Lilja Tua, Brandis Gerrit, Hughes Diarmaid
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Experimental evolution is a powerful tool to study genetic trajectories to antibiotic resistance under selection. A confounding factor is that outcomes may be heavily influenced by the choice of experimental parameters. For practical purposes (minimizing culture volumes), most experimental evolution studies with bacteria use transmission bottleneck sizes of 5 × 106 cfu. We currently have a poor understanding of...
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