Rapid evolution of mutation rate and spectrum in response to environmental and population-genetic challenges.

Abstract excerpt

Ecological and demographic factors can significantly shape the evolution of microbial populations both directly and indirectly, as when changes in the effective population size affect the efficiency of natural selection on the mutation rate. However, it remains unclear how rapidly the mutation-ra...

Topics

• Escherichia coli
• Genetics, Population
• Genotype
• Mutation Rate
• Selection, Genetic