Divergent adaptation of Escherichia coli to cyclic ultraviolet light exposures

Mutagenesis
David Alcántara-DíazJorge Serment-Guerrero

Abstract

The genetic changes taking place during adaptive evolution are particularly interesting in evolutionary biology. As a consequence of adaptive evolution, natural populations of an organism under selective conditions change genetically and phenotypically after a number of generations in order to survive in that particular environment. When a DNA-damaging and mutagenic agent like UV light is experimentally used as a selective factor, natural resistance of bacteria to this agent is normally increased through processes of mutation and selection. Since UV-induced mutagenesis is not restricted to particular chromosomal regions, different UV resistance mechanisms will equally probably evolve as a consequence of cyclic UV irradiation. However, it is also possible that as a consequence of the selective process, one UV resistance mechanism is preferentially selected, causing adaptive convergence of different bacterial cultures. This may occur if the most abundant or lethal kind of DNA lesion is preferentially managed by a particular DNA repair pathway and even by a specific repair enzyme or if resistance mechanisms that decrease bacterial fitness tend to be eliminated from the populations. To examine which of these two alternatives actual...Continue Reading

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