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Tests Of Parallel Molecular Evolution In A Long-Term Experiment With Escherichia Coli, Margaret Riley, Robert Woods, Dominique Schneider, Cynthia L. Winkworth, Richard E. Lenski
Tests Of Parallel Molecular Evolution In A Long-Term Experiment With Escherichia Coli, Margaret Riley, Robert Woods, Dominique Schneider, Cynthia L. Winkworth, Richard E. Lenski
Margaret Riley
The repeatability of evolutionary change is difficult to quantify because only a single outcome can usually be observed for any precise set of circumstances. In this study, however, we have quantified the frequency of parallel and divergent genetic changes in 12 initially identical populations of Escherichia coli that evolved in identical environments for 20,000 cell generations. Unlike previous analyses in which candidate genes were identified based on parallel phenotypic changes, here we sequenced four loci (pykF, nadR, pbpA-rodA, and hokB/sokB) in which mutations of unknown effect had been discovered in one population, and then we compared the substitution pattern in …