Rapid Genetic Adaptation during the First Four Months of Survival under Resource Exhaustion

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2017, Pages 1758-1769

  Avrani, Sarit ^a,b   Bolotin, Evgeni ^a   Katz, Sophia ^a   Hershberg, Ruth ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Antagonistic pleiotropy; Convergent evolution; Experimental evolution; Mutators; Resource exhaustion

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; RNA POLYMERASE; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN;

ALLELE; ANTAGONISTIC PLEIOTROPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BIOINFORMATICS; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; EXHAUSTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GROWTH RATE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; METAGENOMICS; MUTATION ACCUMULATION; NONHUMAN; SURVIVAL RATE; WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCING; ACCLIMATIZATION; ADAPTATION; BACTERIUM; EVOLUTION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ALLELES; BACTERIA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE FREQUENCY; MUTATION; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 85030615583     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/MOLBEV/MSX118     Document Type: Article

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