Experimental Evolution of a Bacteriophage Virus Reveals the Trajectory of Adaptation across a Fecundity/Longevity Trade-Off

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Heineman, Richard H ^a   Brown, Sam P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPSID PROTEIN; CORE PROTEIN; UREA;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIOPHAGE T7; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; EPISTASIS; EVOLUTION; FERTILITY; GENE DELETION; GENOTYPE; HOST CELL; LIFE HISTORY; LONGEVITY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POINT MUTATION; REPRODUCTION; TEMPERATURE STRESS;

BACTERIOPHAGE T7; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; GENES, VIRAL; POINT MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC;

EID: 84867409546     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0046322     Document Type: Article

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