Chance and pleiotropy dominate genetic diversity in complex bacterial environments
L. Noda-Garcia, D. Davidi, E. Korenblum, A. Elazar, E. Putintseva, A. Aharoni, D. S. Tawfik
The paper examines how environmental complexity influences the evolutionary fate of mutations in Bacillus subtilis, finding that pleiotropy and chance dominate over selection in heterogeneous environments.
bioRxiv · Oct 6, 2018Microbiology