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| Title |
Probing Evolutionary Repeatability: Neutral and Double Changes and the Predictability of Evolutionary Adaptation
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| Published in |
PLOS ONE, February 2009
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0004500 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Scott William Roy |
| Abstract |
The question of how organisms adapt is among the most fundamental in evolutionary biology. Two recent studies investigated the evolution of Escherichia coli in response to challenge with the antibiotic cefotaxime. Studying five mutations in the beta-lactamase gene that together confer significant antibiotic resistance, the authors showed a complex fitness landscape that greatly constrained the identity and order of intermediates leading from the initial wildtype genotype to the final resistant genotype. Out of 18 billion possible orders of single mutations leading from non-resistant to fully-resistant form, they found that only 27 (1.5x10(-7)%) pathways were characterized by consistently increasing resistance, thus only a tiny fraction of possible paths are accessible by positive selection. I further explore these data in several ways. |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 49 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | 6% |
| Spain | 2 | 4% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 2% |
| Austria | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 42 | 86% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 21 | 43% |
| Researcher | 14 | 29% |
| Student > Master | 5 | 10% |
| Professor | 2 | 4% |
| Unspecified | 1 | 2% |
| Other | 2 | 4% |
| Unknown | 4 | 8% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 34 | 69% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 4 | 8% |
| Computer Science | 2 | 4% |
| Unspecified | 1 | 2% |
| Psychology | 1 | 2% |
| Other | 2 | 4% |
| Unknown | 5 | 10% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 22 July 2013.
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#5,471,000
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#66,521
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#25,755
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#233
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So far Altmetric has tracked 193,925 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 15.0. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 65% of its peers.
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