Pleiotropic Costs of Niche Expansion in the RNA Bacteriophage Φ6
Duffy S, Turner PE, Burch CL. Pleiotropic Costs of Niche Expansion in the RNA Bacteriophage Φ6. Genetics 2006, 172: 751-757. PMID: 16299384, PMCID: PMC1456241, DOI: 10.1534/genetics.105.051136.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsNiche expansionAntagonistic pleiotropyCosts of generalismVaried ecological conditionsRNA virus phi6Standard laboratory hostRNA bacteriophage φ6Host range mutantsPleiotropic costsHost shiftsPseudomonas hostsFitness costsGenetic basisGenetic dataHost attachmentHost rangeExperimental model systemAdaptive mutationsHost typeNonsynonymous mutationsEcological conditionsOriginal hostRNA virusesBacteriophage Φ6Generalism