Effective polyploidy causes phenotypic delay and influences bacterial evolvability
L. Sun, H. K. Alexander, B. Bogos, D. J. Kiviet, M. Ackermann, S. Bonhoeffer
This study shows antibiotic resistance mutations in E. coli have a 3-4 generation phenotypic delay due to effective polyploidy, impacting mutation rate estimation and evolutionary adaptation.
bioRxiv · Jan 11, 2018Evolutionary Biology