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Fitness declines approximately linearly with the number of suboptimal codons in phage T7. All changes were engineered in the viral major capsid gene. Fitness is growth rate, population doublings per hour, a geometric measure of fitness. The leftmost point represents wild type. Used with permission from Bull, Molineux, and Wilke (2012).
