Historical contingency in the evolution of antibiotic resistance after decades of relaxed selection.
Populations often encounter changed environments that remove selection for the maintenance of particular phenotypic traits. The resulting genetic decay of those traits under relaxed selection reduces an organism's fitness in its prior environment. However, whether and how such decay alters the...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2019-10-01
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Series: | PLoS Biology |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000397 |