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To identify the specific molecular events and mutational mechanisms that drive successive adaptive periodic selections in bacterial populations under nutrient-limited growth.

December 1, 2000GeneticsOpen Access

Experimental Analysis of Molecular Events During Mutational Periodic Selections in Bacterial Evolution

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LMLucinda S. McRobbMacquarie University TFThomas FerenciUNSW Sydney

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Experimental evolution study uncovers diverse adaptive mutations during selective sweeps in Escherichia coli, demonstrating that sweeps preserve genetic variation rather than purging diversity.

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To identify the specific molecular events and mutational mechanisms that drive successive adaptive periodic selections in bacterial populations under nutrient-limited growth.
Cultured Escherichia coli continuously in steady-state glucose-limited chemostats to monitor adaptive mutational successions over time.
Tracked neutral fhuA mutations granting bacteriophage T5 resistance to detect periodic selection events and sequenced mutations at the mgl, mlc, and mutS loci.
Two distinct selective sweeps decreased neutral mutation frequencies and yielded widespread polymorphism, generating at least 13 distinct alleles across the mgl or mlc transport loci.
A third sweep demonstrated genetic hitchhiking between T5 resistance and advantageous mgl alleles, driven by a transient mutS mutator phenotype that increased mutation rates.
Periodic selections maintained substantial genotypic diversity across the evolving population without a single winner clone purging variation.

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McRobb et al. (2000) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6aad0beba03bca6a43e04a2f https://doi.org/10.1093/genetics/156.4.1493

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Experimental evolution study uncovers diverse adaptive mutations during selective sweeps in Escherichia coli, demonstrating that sweeps preserve genetic variation rather than purging diversity.

Experimental Analysis of Molecular Events During Mutational Periodic Selections in Bacterial Evolution

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