Article
Diminishing returns from mutation supply rate in asexual populations.
Science (New York, N.Y.) - 15 Jan 1999
Arjan J A, Visser M, Zeyl C W, Gerrish P J, Blanchard J L, Lenski R E
Abstract excerpt
Mutator genotypes with increased mutation rates may be especially important in microbial evolution if genetic adaptation is generally limited by the supply of mutations. In experimental populations of the bacterium Escherichia coli, the rate of evolutionary adaptation was proportional to the muta...
Topics
- Adaptation, Physiological
- Biological Evolution
- Escherichia coli
- Genetics, Population
- Genotype
- Linear Models
- Models, Biological
- Mutation