Evolutionary BiologybioRxiv
Evolutionary Stalling and a Limit on the Power of Natural Selection to Improve a Cellular Module
S. Venkataram, R. Monasky, S. H. Sikaroodi…·B. Kacar
This study shows that natural selection can stall in improving a cellular module, the translation machinery, due to epistasis and depletion of beneficial mutations in E. coli.
DOI 10.1073/pnas.1921881117