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EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY
卷 21, 期 4, 页码 535-547出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10682-006-9134-8
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cell morphology; glyphosate; microcystis; mutation rate; natural selection
Adaptation of Microcystis aeruginosa (Cyanobacteria) to resist the herbicide glyphosate was analysed by using an experimental model. Growth of wild-type, glyphosate-sensitive (G(s)) cells was inhibited when they were cultured with 120 ppm glyphosate, but after further incubation for several weeks, occasionally the growth of rare cells resistant (G(r)) to the herbicide was found. A fluctuation analysis was carried out to distinguish between resistant cells arising from rare spontaneous mutations and resistant cells arising from other mechanisms of adaptation. Resistant cells arose by rare spontaneous mutations prior to the addition of glyphosate, with a rate ranging from 3.1 X 10(-7) mutants per cell per generation in two strains of M. aeruginosa; the frequency of the G(r) allele ranged from 6.14 X 10(-4) 4supercript stop. The G(r) mutants are slightly elliptical in outline, whereas the G(s) cells are spherical. Since G(r) mutants have a diminished growth rate, they may be maintained in uncontaminated waters as the result of a balance between new resistants arising from spontaneous mutation and resistants eliminated by natural selection. Thus, rare spontaneous pre-selective mutations may allow the survival of M. aeruginosa in glyphosate-polluted waters via G(r) clone selection.
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