Evolutionary dynamics of asexual hypermutators adapting to a novel environment
W.-C. Ho, M. G. Behringer, S. F. Miller, J. Gonzales, A. Nguyen, M. Allahwerdy, G. F. Boyer, M. Lynch
This study evolves E. coli populations with different mutation rates in a complex medium for 900 days and finds that higher mutation rates do not significantly increase fitness improvement despite faster genome evolution.
bioRxiv · Jul 28, 2021Evolutionary Biology