Fabian Salgado-Roa
@facasaro.bsky.social
Evolutionary biologist. Stengl-Wyer postdoc fellow at @texas-ib.bsky.social. I like colorful spiders
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Reposted by Fabian Salgado-Roa
At the same time, we made thousands of synonymous mutations in endogenous yeast genes and measured their growth. We used careful statistics and controls. Only 3%, 204 of 6874, had a fitness effect! This goes against a controversial recent result that most synonymous mutations had fitness effects.
August 7, 2025 at 8:29 AM
At the same time, we made thousands of synonymous mutations in endogenous yeast genes and measured their growth. We used careful statistics and controls. Only 3%, 204 of 6874, had a fitness effect! This goes against a controversial recent result that most synonymous mutations had fitness effects.
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August 19, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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