Pervasive compensatory adaptation in Escherichia coli

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 267, Issue 1442, 2000, Pages 515-522

  Moore, Francisco B G ^a   Rozen, Daniel E ^a   Lenski, Richard E ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Compensatory adaptation; Deleterious mutations; Epistasis; Fitness; Natural selection

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; COMPENSATION; EVOLUTION; MUTATION;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0034615640     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2000.1030     Document Type: Article

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