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Beneficial Mutations from Evolution Experiments Increase Rates of Growth and Fermentation

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Molecular Evolution, January 2018
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Beneficial Mutations from Evolution Experiments Increase Rates of Growth and Fermentation
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Journal of Molecular Evolution, January 2018
DOI 10.1007/s00239-018-9829-9
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Aysha L. Sezmis, Martino E. Malerba, Dustin J. Marshall, Michael J. McDonald

Abstract

A major goal of evolutionary biology is to understand how beneficial mutations translate into increased fitness. Here, we study beneficial mutations that arise in experimental populations of yeast evolved in glucose-rich media. We find that fitness increases are caused by enhanced maximum growth rate (R) that come at the cost of reduced yield (K). We show that for some of these mutants, high R coincides with higher rates of ethanol secretion, suggesting that higher growth rates are due to an increased preference to utilize glucose through the fermentation pathway, instead of respiration. We examine the performance of mutants across gradients of glucose and nitrogen concentrations and show that the preference for fermentation over respiration is influenced by the availability of glucose and nitrogen. Overall, our data show that selection for high growth rates can lead to an enhanced Crabtree phenotype by the way of beneficial mutations that permit aerobic fermentation at a greater range of glucose concentrations.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 24 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 8 33%
Researcher 3 13%
Student > Bachelor 3 13%
Student > Master 2 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 1 4%
Other 3 13%
Unknown 4 17%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 8 33%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 7 29%
Environmental Science 1 4%
Immunology and Microbiology 1 4%
Medicine and Dentistry 1 4%
Other 1 4%
Unknown 5 21%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. 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 23 January 2018.
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#14,964,325
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