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From: Adapting the engine to the fuel: mutator populations can reduce the mutational load by reorganizing their genome structure

Fig. 2

Extreme values of the metabolic error during the 100,000 propagation experiments of the mutator clones. Stars: Metabolic error of the ancestor at generation 300,000. Plus signs: Worst metabolic error reached in the mutator ancestral lineages. Circles: Metabolic error of the mutators at generation 390,000. Solid horizontal lines: Mean metabolic error of the control clones at generation 390,000. All mutator clones experience a strong increase of their metabolic error which intensity is clearly WT-dependent. However, among the 100 mutator lineages, 62 completely recovered, showing a lower metabolic error at generation 390,000 than at generation 300,000. From those, 25 improved beyond the mean improvement of the control lineages at generation 390,000

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