Epistasis and adaptation on fitness landscapes

C Bank - Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Epistasis occurs when the effect of a mutation depends on its carrier's genetic background.
Despite increasing evidence that epistasis for fitness is common, its role during evolution is …

Evolution in the light of fitness landscape theory

I Fragata, A Blanckaert, MAD Louro, DA Liberles… - Trends in ecology & …, 2019 - cell.com
By formalizing the relationship between genotype or phenotype and fitness, fitness
landscapes harbor information on molecular and evolutionary constraints. The shape of the …

On the (un) predictability of a large intragenic fitness landscape

C Bank, S Matuszewski, RT Hietpas… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
The study of fitness landscapes, which aims at mapping genotypes to fitness, is receiving
ever-increasing attention. Novel experimental approaches combined with next-generation …

Predictable properties of fitness landscapes induced by adaptational tradeoffs

SG Das, SOL Direito, B Waclaw, RJ Allen, J Krug - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Fitness effects of mutations depend on environmental parameters. For example, mutations
that increase fitness of bacteria at high antibiotic concentration often decrease fitness in the …

Mapping a systematic ribozyme fitness landscape reveals a frustrated evolutionary network for self-aminoacylating RNA

AD Pressman, Z Liu, E Janzen, C Blanco… - Journal of the …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Molecular evolution can be conceptualized as a walk over a “fitness landscape”, or the
function of fitness (eg, catalytic activity) over the space of all possible sequences …

[HTML][HTML] Acceptance of near-natural greenspace management relates to ecological and socio-cultural assigned values among European urbanites

J Lampinen, M Tuomi, LK Fischer, L Neuenkamp… - Basic and Applied …, 2021 - Elsevier
Grasslands are widespread elements of urban greenspace providing recreational,
psychological and aesthetic benefits to city residents. Two urban grassland types of …

The highly rugged yet navigable regulatory landscape of the bacterial transcription factor TetR

CA Westmann, L Goldbach, A Wagner - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
Transcription factor binding sites (TFBSs) are important sources of evolutionary innovations.
Understanding how evolution navigates the sequence space of such sites can be achieved …

Machine learning-assisted discovery of growth decision elements by relating bacterial population dynamics to environmental diversity

H Aida, T Hashizume, K Ashino, BW Ying - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Microorganisms growing in their habitat constitute a complex system. How the individual
constituents of the environment contribute to microbial growth remains largely unknown. The …

Molecular fitness landscapes from high-coverage sequence profiling

C Blanco, E Janzen, A Pressman… - Annual review of …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
The function of fitness (or molecular activity) in the space of all possible sequences is known
as the fitness landscape. Evolution is a random walk on the fitness landscape, with a bias …

Key issues review: evolution on rugged adaptive landscapes

U Obolski, Y Ram, L Hadany - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Adaptive landscapes represent a mapping between genotype and fitness. Rugged adaptive
landscapes contain two or more adaptive peaks: allele combinations with higher fitness than …