Linking temperature dependence of fitness effects of mutations to thermal niche adaptation.

Abstract excerpt

Fitness effects of mutations may generally depend on temperature that influences all rate-limiting biophysical and biochemical processes. Earlier studies suggested that high temperatures may increase the availability of beneficial mutations ('more beneficial mutations'), or allow beneficial mutat...

Topics

• Temperature
• Escherichia coli
• Adaptation, Physiological
• Mutation
• Acclimatization
• Genetic Fitness