Parallel evolution of full-length genomes in a long-term evolution experiment with phage ΦX174
Eva Bons, Hélène Chabas, Hannelore MacDonald, Alejandro Escalera Ledermann, Sira Ösze, Jenny Dunstan, Nicolas Ochsner, Daniel C. Angst, Sebastian Bonhoeffer, Roland R. Regoes
The paper tracks parallel evolution of full-length genomes in bacteriophage populations over 412 generations, showing non-neutral evolutionary dynamics and biases in phylodynamic analysis.
PLoS Biology · Oct 29, 2026Peer-reviewedEvolutionary Biology