Sustained fitness gains and variability in fitness trajectories in the long-term evolution experiment with Escherichia coli

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 282, Issue 1821, 2015, Pages

  Lenski, Richard E ^a,b   Wiser, Michael J ^a   Ribeck, Noah ^a,b   Blount, Zachary D ^a,b   Nahum, Joshua R ^a   Jeffrey Morris, J ^a,c   Zaman, Luis ^a,d   Turner, Caroline B ^a,e   Wade, Brian D ^a   Maddamsetti, Rohan ^a   Burmeister, Alita R ^a,b   Baird, Elizabeth J ^a,b   Bundy, Jay ^a   Grant, Nkrumah A ^a,b   Card, Kyle J ^a,b   Rowles, Maia ^a   Weatherspoon, Kiyana ^a   Papoulis, Spiridon E ^a,f   Sullivan, Rachel ^b   Clark, Colleen ^b   Mulka, Joseph S ^b   Hajela, Neerja ^b   more..

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Divergence; Epistasis; Fitness; Hypermutability; Power law model

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BACTERIUM; DIVERGENCE; EPISTASIS; FITNESS; MUTATION; POWER LAW;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ADAPTATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ENVIRONMENT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; MUTATION RATE; POPULATION GENETICS; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ENVIRONMENT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC FITNESS; GENETICS, POPULATION; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION RATE;

EID: 84951808980     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2015.2292     Document Type: Article

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