Hidden Randomness between Fitness Landscapes Limits Reverse Evolution

In biological evolution, adaptations to one environment can in some cases reverse adaptations to another environment. To study this “reverse evolution” on a genotypic level, we measured the fitness of E. coli strains with each possible combination of five mutations in an antibiotic-resistance gene i...

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Main Authors: Tan, Longzhi, Serene, Stephen R., Chao, Hui Xiao, Gore, Jeff
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Physical Society 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/65355
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4583-8555