The phenotypes we selected for this analysis are the cell density after 24 hours of growth of the evolved populations relative to their ancestors in two conditions: a narrow antibiotic nitrofurantoin stress, and a broader environmental low pH stress.
Specifically, we chose DM medium with 1. Nitrofurantoin is one of the phenotypes where evolved populations gained tolerance in the Biolog analyses, and acid stress has been well-studied in E.
To control for changes in cell density at stationary phase, we also performed a control measurement in the standard medium, DM Specifically, we measured the growth of evolved replicate populations at days 28, 63, 91, , , and generations , , , , , and , hereafter designated as generations , , , , , and We incubated the resulting well plates for 24 hours, and then measured the absorbance at nm.
In order to quantify the relationship between the normalized fold-change in cell density G and ancestral mutation rate, we performed a linear mixed effects analysis using the R package lme4 v1. For the nitrofurantoin and pH stressors, we used data from the experimental condition with the most variability between replicates 2.
We tested for homoscedasticity using the R package car v 2. We counted the number of cells in stationary phase just before our daily transfer at regular intervals.
Each point is the average cell density of an evolving replicate population at a given generation. One standard deviation above and below the mean is depicted with a shaded line. We counted the number of cells at regular intervals, and used these counts to estimate A the nominal effective population size N e for each replicate population. Because our populations are asexual, the effects of selection on polymorphisms linked to neutral sites will make drift at neutral sites appear much stronger than indicated by these estimates.
To account for such effects, we also made rough estimates of the effect of linkage on the effective population size using two published methods further described in Methods , which compute the "Gordo" N e B , and the "Good" N e C. Together, panels B and C suggest that the effective population size may be much smaller than the nominal population size. Each circle shows the N e estimate of a replicate population, the center line of the box plot is the median value, and the top and bottom edges of the box correspond to the first and third quartiles.
A Fitness differences between ancestral replicate populations and E. Each circle shows the growth rate of a replicate population for a given strain horizontal axis minus the growth rate of E. Overall, 54 experimental estimates were made for each strain. B Fitness differences between each evolving replicate population and a common reference strain E. Shaded areas indicate one s. A C The fitness difference between each evolving replicate population and its ancestor and its change over time is depicted in separate panels for each strain and replicate.
Panels corresponding to the replicates randomly chosen for further characterization in Biolog plates are outlined with a heavy black border. B Variance in relative fitness for the replicate populations of each strain. Strains with higher ancestral mutation rates have more variability in the relative fitness of their evolving populations than those with lower mutation rates. Each line in a given panel shows the frequency of one SNP in one replicate population vertical axis at generations 0, , , and horizontal axis.
The color of the line indicates the type of SNP. Types of SNPs with likely functional consequences are emphasized in brown nonsense mutations and green nonsynonymous mutations. The frequency of newly-arising SNPs after one day of growth in the ancestral populations.
Several of the observed SNPs, particularly those occurring at higher frequencies, may have been transferred to the eight replicates.
A Nucleotide changes are depicted along the horizontal axis. For each type of mutation, we computed how often it occurred at any time point during the evolution experiment relative to all other types Methods. B The mutational spectra from replicate populations evolved from ancestors with different mutation rates do not clearly separate when projected onto the first two principal components PC1 and PC2 in a principal component analysis Methods.
Because we evolved eight replicate populations for each strain, each vertical stack of dots can harbor at most eight dots. For many genes, all MR XL replicates share the same nucleotide change, which likely already occurred in the shared ancestor. A Genes with different mutations in the same gene in different replicates, and B genes where all the MR XL replicates share the same nucleotide change the nucleotide changes found in the MR L replicate populations for betI and torA are not the same as found in the MR XL populations.
Each circle corresponds to one evolving replicate population. The size of a circle is proportional to the frequency at which a mutation is found in a population, and can change over time horizontal axes.
All replicates for all strains circles inside each panel are depicted for each gene labeled in the top, left of each panel. Importantly, all tested ancestor and evolved MR XL strains failed to grow in every one of the 96 environments. Each circle represents the ancestor's density horizontal axes and the evolved replicate population's density vertical axes in a particular environment.
Points above the diagonal line correspond to conditions in which an evolved replicate population outperformed its ancestor; points below the line correspond to conditions in which an evolved replicate population underperformed its ancestor. We consider a population to have evolved tolerance to a condition when its density is larger than the ancestral density in the same condition, excluding differences attributable to experimental noise.
Conversely, we consider a population as having experienced decay if its density after evolution is smaller than that of its ancestor see Methods. Both gains and decays are indicated by solid circles. Open circles indicate that no gain or decay was detected for that condition, or that the difference between the evolved and ancestral cell density could be due to experimental noise. We plotted each property in a pairwise fashion to identify correlations between properties.
Each property is listed on the diagonal "log U " is the logarithm of the genomic mutation rate, "relative fitness" is the evolved growth rate relative to the ancestor, "N e " is the effective population size, "cell density at " is the absorbance reading at nm at generation after 24 hours of growth in minimal medium, "log derived alleles " is the logarithm of the number of high frequency derived alleles at generation , "log cloud size " is the logarithm of the population's average distance to the center of the cloud at generation , "log pH cell density " is the logarithm of the normalized fold change in cell density after 24 hours of growth in acidic media at pH 5.
Pairwise comparisons are plotted below the diagonal; each circle corresponds to a different replicate population. The Spearman correlation coefficient of each panel below the diagonal is reported in the corresponding panel above the diagonal. A We calculated the percentage of synonymous nucleotide changes at any frequency that occurred within genes belonging to the mutation rate genome vertical axes during the evolution experiment horizontal axes at any frequency in each evolving replicate population circles.
Horizontal gray lines indicate the percentage of coding regions in the E. B We calculated the mean synonymous nucleotide site diversity and its standard error Methods.
The mean synonymous nucleotide site diversity for the mutation rate genome is depicted in the right panel, and for all other genes in the left panel. Note that no or very few sites may contribute to average diversity at low mutation rates. Shaded areas indicate one standard error of the mean. Each circle corresponds to a putatively function-altering mutation nonsynonymous or nonsense mutations in protein-coding genes, or any mutation in tRNA-encoding genes in one evolving replicate population.
All replicates for all strains circles inside each panel are depicted for each gene labeled on the top left of each panel. SNPs occurring in intergenic regions are annotated with the nearest 5' and 3' genes. The columns are as follows: "Strain" is the identity of the ancestral strain e. Mutation rates were measured at generations 0 "Ancestor" replicates and all other replicates. Abstract Mutation is fundamental to evolution, because it generates the genetic variation on which selection can act.
Author summary Mutation is of central importance in biology. Introduction Mutation is fundamental to evolution. Results The experimental design is summarized in Fig 1. Download: PPT. Population sequencing at regular intervals We sequenced a sample of each heterogeneous evolving population rather than a clone isolated from each population, so that we could estimate the genetic diversity within each sequenced population.
Higher mutation rates lead to larger mutant clouds and more high frequency derived alleles One can view an evolving population as a cloud of mutant individuals in sequence space.
Fig 3. Replicate populations with higher mutation rates have increased genetic diversity and more high frequency derived alleles. Beneficial mutations Most new mutations are thought to be effectively neutral or deleterious, and only a small fraction are beneficial in a given environment [ 1 ].
Growth and survival in stressful conditions Thus far, the only phenotype we studied was population growth in one environment—the glucose minimal medium in which we conducted the entire experiment. Fig 4.
Cell density after 24 hours of growth in stressful conditions increased with increasing mutation rate, except for MR XL replicate populations. Changes in the mutation rate genome We call the set of genes potentially involved in modulating the mutation rate the "mutation rate genome". Discussion Here, we studied the effects of mutational pressure on evolutionary adaptation and the evolution of the mutation rate itself.
Methods Bacterial strains We utilized four isogenic E. Evolution experiment See Fig 1 for an overview. Effective population size For populations that do not have a constant number of cells, the effective population size is given by the harmonic mean of population sizes over the course of the dilution and growth cycles of the experiment. Fitness measurements We periodically obtained a proxy for the fitness of the evolving strains by measuring growth curves of the archived populations.
Sequencing We sequenced samples from the four ancestral populations day 0, generation 7 and from each of the 32 evolving replicate populations at days 63, , and generations , , and We estimated the average nucleotide diversity for the L positions in our genome having non-zero coverage as We used the R package lme4 v1. Identification of putatively beneficial mutations We identified putatively beneficial mutations as mutations that occurred in a genomic region more often than one would expect by chance alone.
Mutation rate measurements and calculations We estimated the mutation rate of a single clone isolated from each ancestor and from each evolved replicate population through fluctuation assays that screened for mutants resistant to rifampicin [ ], which can be caused by mutations in the rpoB gene. Phenotype screening Our phenotype screening revolved around the density of cells after growth in various chemicals.
Supporting information. S1 Fig. Cell density vertical axes after 24 hours of growth as a function of generation time horizontal axes. S2 Fig. Effective population size N e of replicate populations over the course of the evolution experiment. S3 Fig. S4 Fig. S5 Fig. Percentage of the genome with no sequencing coverage for all sequenced populations. S6 Fig. Frequency and type of SNP in each evolving population over time.
S7 Fig. S8 Fig. The mutational spectra at four-fold degenerate sites for each evolving replicate strain. S9 Fig. The number of replicates for which at least half of the population harbors any mutation in a putatively beneficial gene. S10 Fig. The evolutionary dynamics of mutations in the eight putatively beneficial genes. S11 Fig. Cell density of two randomly selected evolved and ancestral strains in 96 different environments on Biolog plates.
S12 Fig. The fold-change in cell density after 24 hours of growth of evolved replicate populations relative to their ancestor in media with nitrofurantoin and low pH media. S13 Fig. Comparisons of multiple population properties matrix diagonal for the experimental data from each evolved replicate population. S14 Fig. No evidence that the mutation rate genome is preferentially subject to genetic change. S15 Fig.
The evolutionary dynamics of possibly function-altering mutations in the mutation rate genome. S1 Table. S2 Table. Genes putatively involved in modulating the mutation rate. S3 Table.
Genomic mutation rates. S1 Text. Area Under the Curve AUC is a complementary fitness metric that also demonstrates reduced adaptation at very high mutation rates. S2 Text. Applicability of several theoretical models predicting loss or reduction of adaptation at high mutation rates. S3 Text. The waiting time for the establishment of a new beneficial allele. References 1. The distribution of fitness effects of new mutations.
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Lynch M. The lower bound to the evolution of mutation rates. Genome Biol Evol. This is redundant with the term "heritable" but points out an important genetic issue: The mutations which are of primary concern are those in the germ line as these are the one that will be passed on. August Weismann was the first to point out the distinction between germ and soma. Mutations in your arm or knee cap are not going to get passed on because the germline is sequestered relatively early in development:.
Weismann's doctrine was a serious blow to Lamarkian inheritance of acquired characteristics. However, in plants and some animals clonal ones in particular the germline is not sequestered into a single part of the part of the organism so somatic mutations can be inherited a mutation during the differentiation of a branch on which a flower will develop: all pollen and ovules made by that flower will have a genotype different from the rest of the plant. Think about corals, too. Probably one of the most important things to understand about evolution is that mutation is random , i.
Are some mutations directed? Trends in Ecology and Evolution vol. Mutation is an ongoing process. There are measurable mutation rates and that there can be a genetic variation for mutation rates; "mutator strains" of bacteria exist. Mutations in the replication or repair machinery of DNA can alter mutation rates. Types of mutation: point mutation now generally refers to a change at a single nucleotide site. These can be transitions purine to purine [A to G or G to A], or pyrimidine to pyrimidine [C to T or T to C] or transversions from a purine to a pyrimidine or vice versa.
Synonymous and non-synonymous substitutions with respect to the effect on the amino acid coded for by the DNA. Deletions and insertion will cause frameshift mutations. Transposable elements are mobile genetic elements that can move from one part of the genome to another.
Generally they have repeated sequences at their ends and code for protein s in the middle. In moving from one location to another they can cause mutations. Mutations occur throughout the natural world. Some mutations are beneficial and increase the possibility that an organism will thrive and pass on its genes to the next generation. When mutations improve survival or reproduction, the process of natural selection will cause the mutation to become more common over time.
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