The fitness effects of spontaneous mutations nearly unseen by selection in a bacterium with multiple chromosomes

Genetics

Volumn 204, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 1225-1238

  Dillon, Marcus M ^a   Cooper, Vaughn S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Burkholderia cenocepacia; Deleterious mutation; Fitness effects; Genetic drift; Pleiotropy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BURKHOLDERIA CENOCEPACIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; INDEL MUTATION; LAST COMMON ANCESTOR; MISSENSE MUTATION; MUTATION ACCUMULATION; NONHUMAN; NONSENSE MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS; SPONTANEOUS MUTATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; STOP CODON;

STOP CODON;

BURKHOLDERIA CENOCEPACIA; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CODON, NONSENSE; GENETIC FITNESS; GENOTYPE; MUTATION ACCUMULATION; MUTATION, MISSENSE; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84994894933     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 19432631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.116.193060     Document Type: Article

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