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4. Compensatory mutation: Consider a genotype that is on a peak (or plateau) in a fitness landscape, such that all mutations are either deleterious or neutral.
In the first experiment, I measured competitive fitness versus the ancestor over a 100-fold range of glucose concentrations in the otherwise standard experimental environment.
However, the complex LB environment is certainly different enough from minimal glucose medium that any improvements in fitness in the LB environment are surprising.
Several studies of protein folding in silico indicate that widespread neutral networks exist, comparable to the situation for RNA sequences [ 39 49 50 ] . Moreover, decay functions similar to the function w ( d ) studied here have been measured in vitro [ 51 52 ] by making fitness a binary variable (e.g.
Among the few RGD mutants that have been isolated, on is RED, a low fitness mutant in which the glycine is replace by glutamic acid [ 53 ] . Ruíz-Jarabo and co-workers found that after revertant RGD genomes became dominant, and mutant genomes were no longer detected in the consensus sequence, RED was able to remain in the population for very long times and at surprisingly high frequencies [ 42 43 44 45 ] . There is a qualitative agreement between the predictions of the quasispecies model and this result, but there is also a quantitative discrepancy.