Effective polyploidy causes phenotypic delay and influences bacterial evolvability.

Whether mutations in bacteria exhibit a noticeable delay before expressing their corresponding mutant phenotype was discussed intensively in the 1940s to 1950s, but the discussion eventually waned for lack of supportive evidence and perceived incompatibility with observed mutant distributions in flu...

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Main Authors: Lei Sun, Helen K Alexander, Balazs Bogos, Daniel J Kiviet, Martin Ackermann, Sebastian Bonhoeffer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-02-01
Series:PLoS Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2004644