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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Dec 10.
Published in final edited form as: J Mol Evol. 2008 Sep 9;67(4):368–376. doi: 10.1007/s00239-008-9153-x

Table 2.

The 16 beneficial mutations for the phage ϕ6 selected for the ability to grow on novel host Pseudomonas syringae pv. glycinea (Ferris et al. 2007)

Mutant
ID
Gene
position
Nucleotide
substitution
Amino acid
position
Amino acid
substitution
Fitnessa SEb
G19 Not in P3 Unknown Unknown Unknown 5.53 0.11
g18 1603 G → A 535 D → N 6.23 0.07
g27 1016 C → T 339 P → H 6.41 0.14
g25 23 A → G 8 E → G 6.48 0.05
g24 22 G → A 8 E → K 6.60 0.10
g9 1661 A → C 554 D → A 6.73 0.11
g2 1661 A → T 554 D → V 6.78 0.07
g6 1661 A → G 554 D → G 6.83 0.05
g14 1663 C → T 555 L → F 6.86 0.05
g22 13 G → A 5 G → S 6.94 0.09
g36 1660 G → A 554 D → N 6.97 0.06
g15 1598 A → C 533 D → A 7.02 0.10
g8 434 A → G 145 D → G 7.03 0.10
g5 437 A → G 146 N → S 7.19 0.11
g20 1546 A → G 516 T → A 7.26 0.06
g29 534 G → C 178 E → D 7.56 0.10
a

Fitness was measured as the log10 of the number of phages per plaque per 24 h on plates

b

Based on six replicates