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Genomic evolution of antibiotic resistance is contingent on genetic background following a long-term experiment with Escherichia coli.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 2 Feb 2021
Card Kyle J, Thomas Misty D, Graves Joseph L, Barrick Jeffrey E, Lenski Richard E
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Antibiotic resistance is a growing health concern. Efforts to control resistance would benefit from an improved ability to forecast when and how it will evolve. Epistatic interactions between mutations can promote divergent evolutionary trajectories, which complicates our ability to predict evolution. We recently showed that differences between genetic backgrounds can lead to idiosyncratic responses in the...
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