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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Feb 28.
Published in final edited form as: Nature. 2013 Jul 21;500(7464):571–574. doi: 10.1038/nature12344

Table 2.

Summary of the fates of nuclear mutations observed throughout the experiment

Class of mutation All populations (40) Small populations (26) Large populations (14)
Total Fixed % Fixed Total Fixed % Fixed Total Fixed % Fixed



All 995 246 25% 703 191 27% 292 55 19%
Intergenic 272 58 21% 207 48 23% 65 10 15%
Synonymous 107 26 24% 77 21 27% 30 5 17%
Nonsynonymous 616 162 26% 419 122 29% 197 40 20%
 Hit 1x 381 86 23% 273 65 24% 108 21 19%
 Hit 2x 95 24 25% 63 17 27% 32 7 22%
 Hit ≥3x 140 52 37% 83 40 48% 57 12 21%