Research article
Experimental evolution of aging in a bacterium
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* Corresponding author: Martin Ackermann Martin.Ackermann@env.ethz.ch
1 Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zürich, CH-8092 Zürich, Switzerland
2 Division of Molecular Microbiology, Biozentrum, University of Basel, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland
3 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520-8106, USA
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7:126 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-7-126
Published: 28 July 2007Additional files
Additional file 1:
Detailed description of the evolutionary changes in population doubling time. This file contains an additional figure (S1) depicting changes in the population doubling time during 211 days of experimental evolution, based on daily measurement, as well as a description of the methods.
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Additional file 2:
The effect of juvenile mortality on the age-specific strength of selection. This file contains a mathematical model used for analyzing the effect of juvenile mortality on the age-specific strength of selection. The strength of selection was calculated for populations that grow exponentially (additional figure S2) and for populations that are at equilibrium (additional figure S3).
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