Journal
EVOLUTION
Volume 68, Issue 1, Pages 150-162Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/evo.12234
Keywords
Epistasis; fisher geometrical model; fitness recovery; mutation accumulation; rate of adaptation
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- European Research Council under the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7)/ERC [260421-ECOADAPT]
- Laboratorios Associados de Oeiras/Instituto de Tecnologia Quimica e Biologica (LAO/ITQB)
- Fundacao para a Ciencia e Tecnologia (FCT)
- Danish Council for Independent Research
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Unraveling the factors that determine the rate of adaptation is a major question in evolutionary biology. One key parameter is the effect of a new mutation on fitness, which invariably depends on the environment and genetic background. The fate of a mutation also depends on population size, which determines the amount of drift it will experience. Here, we manipulate both population size and genotype composition and follow adaptation of 23 distinct Escherichia coli genotypes. These have previously accumulated mutations under intense genetic drift and encompass a substantial fitness variation. A simple rule is uncovered: the net fitness change is negatively correlated with the fitness of the genotype in which new mutations appeara signature of epistasis. We find that Fisher's geometrical model can account for the observed patterns of fitness change and infer the parameters of this model that best fit the data, using Approximate Bayesian Computation. We estimate a genomic mutation rate of 0.01 per generation for fitness altering mutations, albeit with a large confidence interval, a mean fitness effect of mutations of -0.01, and an effective number of traits nine in mutS(-)E. coli. This framework can be extended to confront a broader range of models with data and test different classes of fitness landscape models.
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