Nels and Vincent explore a direct experimental test of Ohno’s Hypothesis, which states that gene duplication can help genes tolerate new mutations and thus facilitates the evolution of new phenotypes.
TWiEVO 76: One-step symbiosis
- March 22, 2022
- Tagged as: E. coli, evolution, mutualism, natural selection, reduced genome, stinkbug, symbiont
Nels and Vincent describe how a single amino acid change can allow E. coli to replace the essential gut symbiont of the stinkbug Plautia stali.
