Bottlenecks and Resistance Evolution against an Antimicrobial 1 Peptide
Onur Erk Kavlak, Luisa Linke, Elisa Bittermann, Mathias Franz, Jens Rolff
The paper investigates how population bottlenecks affect bacterial resistance evolution to antimicrobial peptides in E. coli, finding that mutator strains in large populations develop higher resistance.
bioRxiv · Mar 27, 2025 · PreprintEvolutionary Biology