Transition from positive to neutral in mutation fixation along with continuing rising fitness in thermal adaptive evolution.

It remains to be determined experimentally whether increasing fitness is related to positive selection, while stationary fitness is related to neutral evolution. Long-term laboratory evolution in Escherichia coli was performed under conditions of thermal stress under defined laboratory conditions. T...

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Main Authors: Toshihiko Kishimoto, Leo Iijima, Makoto Tatsumi, Naoaki Ono, Ayana Oyake, Tomomi Hashimoto, Moe Matsuo, Masato Okubo, Shingo Suzuki, Kotaro Mori, Akiko Kashiwagi, Chikara Furusawa, Bei-Wen Ying, Tetsuya Yomo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-10-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2958811?pdf=render