Escherichia coli rpoB mutants have increased evolvability in proportion to their fitness defects

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1338-1347

  Barrick, Jeffrey E ^a   Kauth, Mark R ^a   Strelioff, Christopher C ^a   Lenski, Richard E ^a  

^a Michigan State University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Compensatory adaptation; Escherichia coli; Evolvability; Experimental evolution; Fitness landscape; Neutral marker divergence

Indexed keywords

ALPHA AMINO ACID; NUCLEOTIDE; RNA POLYMERASE BETA SUBUNIT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CODON; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FITNESS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC MODEL; GENOTYPE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; SIMULATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC FITNESS; GENETIC MARKERS; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 77952796777     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msq024     Document Type: Article

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