The dynamics of molecular evolution over 60,000 generations

Nature

Volumn 551, Issue 7678, 2017, Pages 45-50

  Good, Benjamin H ^a,b,c,d,e   McDonald, Michael J ^a,b,f   Barrick, Jeffrey E ^g,h   Lenski, Richard E ^h,i   Desai, Michael M ^a,b,c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e University of California   (United States)

^f MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^h MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BACTERIUM; COEXISTENCE; DOMINANCE; EPISTASIS; EVOLUTION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FITNESS; GENOME; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MUTATION; NATURAL SELECTION;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; DYNAMICS; EPISTASIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE; GENETICS; METAGENOMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCING; BACTERIAL GENOME; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FOSSIL; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC SELECTION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MUTATION RATE; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FOSSILS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC FITNESS; GENOME, BACTERIAL; METAGENOMICS; MUTATION RATE; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 85032924702     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature24287     Document Type: Article

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