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. 2008 Aug 13;105(33):11863–11868. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0804739105

Table 3.

Nature and selective value of mutations arising during aging

rpoB mutation
No. of occurrences
Competitive index (CI)
No. Substitution Day 1 Day 7, nonjackpot Day 7, jackpot CI Dev* N P value
1 D516G 14 8 14 2.7 2.3 11 0.0002
2 S531F 10 3 0 1.0 0.4 12 0.1362
3 H526Y 5 3 8 1.1 7.6 14 0.6312
4 S512P 3 5 3 1.1 0.4 16 0.8103
5 R529H 3 4 0 5.2 3.6 8 <0.0001
6 P564L 3 4 4 27.8 93.2 11 <0.0001
7 S522F 2 3 0 0.2 0.7 12 0.0014
8 I572F 2 1 0 1.7 0.7 5 0.1188
9 K504N 1 1 0 3.0 1.0 11 <0.0001
10 L511P 1 1 0 3.1 1.5 11 <0.0001
11 S512F 1 4 2 0.9 0.3 17 0.2891
12 R529C 1 6 1 17.2 7.2 16 <0.0001
13 S512Y 0 2 0 0.8 0.6 18 0.3628
14 Q513L 0 2 0 5.7 3.7 13 0.0061
15 Q513H 0 1 0 12.9 5.9 15 0.0001
16 D516Y 0 2 0 2.2 0.9 23 <0.0001
17 S522Y 0 0 1 4.6 8.0 13 0.0105
18 H526L 0 2 0 1.4 1.0 12 0.2041
19 H526P 0 1 0 1.3 2.3 25 0.2225
20 R529S 0 1 0 40.6 45 12 <0.0001
21 R529L 0 1 1 8.1 9.4 18 <0.0001

*Dev is the absolute average deviation from the median (see Materials and Methods). Note: the CI was positive for all competitions.

N is the number of independent colony competitions for each mutant.

Two-tailed P values (CI of mutant significantly different from CI of wild-type) measured by Mann–Whitney nonparametric test.