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The fitness landscape of the codon space across environments

Fragata, Ines
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Matuszewski, Sebastian  
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Schmitz, Mark A.
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November 1, 2018
Heredity

Fitness landscapes map the relationship between genotypes and fitness. However, most fitness landscape studies ignore the genetic architecture imposed by the codon table and thereby neglect the potential role of synonymous mutations. To quantify the fitness effects of synonymous mutations and their potential impact on adaptation on a fitness landscape, we use a new software based on Bayesian Monte Carlo Markov Chain methods and re-estimate selection coefficients of all possible codon mutations across 9 amino acid positions in Saccharomyces cerevisiae Hsp90 across 6 environments. We quantify the distribution of fitness effects of synonymous mutations and show that it is dominated by many mutations of small or no effect and few mutations of larger effect. We then compare the shape of the codon fitness landscape across amino acid positions and environments, and quantify how the consideration of synonymous fitness effects changes the evolutionary dynamics on these fitness landscapes. Together these results highlight a possible role of synonymous mutations in adaptation and indicate the potential mis-inference when they are neglected in fitness landscape studies.

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research article
DOI
10.1038/s41437-018-0125-7
Web of Science ID

WOS:000446880900003

Author(s)
Fragata, Ines
Matuszewski, Sebastian  
Schmitz, Mark A.
Bataillon, Thomas
Jensen, Jeffrey D.  
Bank, Claudia  
Date Issued

2018-11-01

Publisher

NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP

Published in
Heredity
Volume

121

Issue

5

Start page

422

End page

437

Subjects

Ecology

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Evolutionary Biology

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Genetics & Heredity

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Environmental Sciences & Ecology

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Evolutionary Biology

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Genetics & Heredity

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synonymous mutations

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beneficial mutations

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molecular evolution

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usage influences

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gene-expression

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adaptation

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selection

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bias

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translation

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drosophila

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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EPFL

EPFL units
UPJENSEN  
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December 13, 2018
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/152139
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