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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Dec 30.
Published in final edited form as: Nature. 2016 Jun 30;534(7609):693–696. doi: 10.1038/nature18313

Fig. 2. Substitution rates and indel frequencies.

Fig. 2

(a) Comparison of mutation rates calculated from fluctuation assays (FA) using either rifampicin (Rif) or nalidixic acid (Nal), long-term evolution (LTE), and mutation accumulation (MA). Rates calculated using MDS are boxed. All error bars are 95% CI. Note that number of generations is calculated according to population doubling time in Ref. 2 and 3 (see SI: Generation Time Models). (b) Frequency of indel mutations recovered at t=120 generations. Values are normalized for possible indel lengths considered in each category. Experiments are biological quadruplicates.