Evolutionary rescue of resistant mutants is governed by a balance between radial expansion and selection in compact populations

Antibiotic and anti-cancer therapy are challenged by mutation-mediated treatment resistance despite many mutations being maladaptive. Here, the authors introduce a system that shows how the probability of the long-term persistence of drug-resistant mutant lineages can be increased in dense microbial...

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Main Authors: Serhii Aif, Nico Appold, Lucas Kampman, Oskar Hallatschek, Jona Kayser
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-12-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35484-y