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The fitness distribution of new mutations inSaccharomyces cerevisiae strain Montrachet was determined for cells on agar irradiated for four periods of time with ultraviolet light. The fitness distributions were obtained by converting a large number of colony diameters into relative fitnesses. The distributions were then used to perform a computer simulation with the purpose of predicting the potential of a stock culture to increase in general fitness through selection, given a frequency and magnitude of mutations.
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Charlebois, R.L., Subden, R.E. & Carey, K. Selection in yeast II: The fitness distribution of new mutations inSaccharomyces cerevisiae and its use in a computer simulation. Journal of Industrial Microbiology 2, 167–174 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01569424
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