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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1544
pubmed:dateCreated
2010-3-23
pubmed:abstractText
Knowledge of the mutational parameters that affect the evolution of organisms is of key importance in understanding the evolution of several characteristics of many natural populations, including recombination and mutation rates. In this study, we estimated the rate and mean effect of spontaneous mutations that affect fitness in a mutator strain of Escherichia coli and review some of the estimation methods associated with mutation accumulation (MA) experiments. We performed an MA experiment where we followed the evolution of 50 independent mutator lines that were subjected to repeated bottlenecks of a single individual for approximately 1150 generations. From the decline in mean fitness and the increase in variance between lines, we estimated a minimum mutation rate to deleterious mutations of 0.005 (+/-0.001 with 95% confidence) and a maximum mean fitness effect per deleterious mutation of 0.03 (+/-0.01 with 95% confidence). We also show that any beneficial mutations that occur during the MA experiment have a small effect on the estimate of the rate and effect of deleterious mutations, unless their rate is extremely large. Extrapolating our results to the wild-type mutation rate, we find that our estimate of the mutational effects is slightly larger and the inferred deleterious mutation rate slightly lower than previous estimates obtained for non-mutator E. coli.
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Apr
pubmed:issn
1471-2970
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:day
27
pubmed:volume
365
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1177-86
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-7-28
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2010
pubmed:articleTitle
Rate and effects of spontaneous mutations that affect fitness in mutator Escherichia coli.
pubmed:affiliation
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, , Rua da Quinta Grande, No. 6, 2780-156 Oeiras, Portugal.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't