Emergence of a multilocus mutator genotype in mutator Escherichia coli experimental populations under repeated lethal selection.

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Mutator alleles, which confer increased mutation rates, are known to spontaneously emerge and "hitchhike" to fixation in evolving asexual populations. Theory predicts that in an evolving asexual mutator population, a second mutator allele may spontaneously arise and hitchhike to fixation. Here, we describe an empirical test of the hypothesis of repeated hitchhiking. The starting population was a clonal strain of...

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