Gene expression noise can promote the fixation of beneficial mutations in fluctuating environments.
Nongenetic phenotypic variation can either speed up or slow down adaptive evolution. We show that it can speed up evolution in environments where available carbon and energy sources change over time. To this end, we use an experimentally validated model of Escherichia coli growth on two alternative...
Main Authors: | Michael Schmutzer, Andreas Wagner |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2020-10-01
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Series: | PLoS Computational Biology |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007727 |
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