Synonymous genetic variation in natural isolates of Escherichia coli does not predict where synonymous substitutions occur in a long-term experiment

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 32, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 2897-2904

  Maddamsetti, Rohan ^a   Hatcher, Philip J ^b   Cruveiller, Stéphane ^c   Médigue, Claudine ^c   Barrick, Jeffrey E ^a,d   Lenski, Richard E ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^c DIF   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

effective population size; experimental evolution; genetic variation; mutation rate

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; EFFECTIVE POPULATION SIZE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SUBSTITUTION LINE; SYNONYMOUS SUBSTITUTION; EVOLUTION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; GENOMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION RATE; PHYLOGENY; SILENT MUTATION;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOMICS; MUTATION RATE; PHYLOGENY; SELECTION, GENETIC; SILENT MUTATION;

EID: 84946127504     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msv161     Document Type: Article

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