Plasticity and epistasis strongly affect bacterial fitness after losing multiple metabolic genes

Evolution

Volumn 69, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1244-1254

  D'Souza, Glen ^a   Waschina, Silvio ^a,b   Kaleta, Christoph ^b,c   Kost, Christian ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL ECOLOGY   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptive gene loss; Amino acid auxotrophy; Black queen hypothesis; Epistasis; Phenotypic plasticity

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AMINO ACID; BACTERIUM; COEXISTENCE; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; EPISTASIS; FITNESS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

AMINO ACID; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN;

BIOSYNTHESIS; DEFICIENCY; EPISTASIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS;

AMINO ACIDS; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENETIC FITNESS; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; MUTATION;

EID: 84929377154     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/evo.12640     Document Type: Article

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