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The dramatic success of infectious agents comes from their ability to adapt to both immune and pharmaceutical selective pressures. To uncover the dynamics of bacterial adaptation, experimental evolution has been widely used, focusing mostly on organismal fitness. Many of the observation derived from these experiments have been captured by Fisher’s Geometric model of Adaptation (FGMA). Despite its success, this top-down phenotypic model is relatively abstract. In fact, its most important parameter, the number of independent phenotypes an organism expose to the action of natural selection, or phenotypic complexity, remains completely disconnected from a genetic perspective. More recently, bottom-up genotype to […]
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