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Genetics, Vol 142, 673-679, Copyright © 1996
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Evolution of Fitness in Experimental Populations of Vesicular Stomatitis Virus
S. F. Elena, F. Gonzalez-Candelas, I. S. Novella, E. A. Duarte, D. K. Clarke, E. Domingo, J. J. Holland and A. Moya
Departament de Genetica i Servei de Bioinformatica, Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Valencia, E-46100 Burjassot, Valencia, Spain
The evolution of fitness in experimental clonal populations of vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) has been compared under different genetic (fitness of initial clone) and demographic (population dynamics) regimes. In spite of the high genetic heterogeneity among replicates within experiments, there is a clear effect of population dynamics on the evolution of fitness. Those populations that went through strong periodic bottlenecks showed a decreased fitness in competition experiments with wild type. Conversely, mutant populations that were transferred under the dynamics of continuous population expansions increased their fitness when compared with the same wild type. The magnitude of the observed effect depended on the fitness of the original viral clone. Thus, high fitness clones showed a larger reduction in fitness than low fitness clones under dynamics with included periodic bottleneck. In contrast, the gain in fitness was larger the lower the initial fitness of the viral clone. The quantitative genetic analysis of the trait ``fitness'' in the resulting populations shows that genetic variation for the trait is positively correlated with the magnitude of the change in the same trait. The results are interpreted in terms of the operation of MULLER's ratchet and genetic drift as opposed to the appearance of beneficial mutations.
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