Standing genetic variation in contingency loci drives the rapid adaptation of Campylobacter jejuni to a novel host.

The genome of the food-borne pathogen Campylobacter jejuni contains multiple highly mutable sites, or contingency loci. It has been suggested that standing variation at these loci is a mechanism for rapid adaptation to a novel environment, but this phenomenon has not been shown experimentally. In pr...

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Main Authors: John P Jerome, Julia A Bell, Anne E Plovanich-Jones, Jeffrey E Barrick, C Titus Brown, Linda S Mansfield
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0016399&type=printable
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