Fig. 3: Loss of fitness below the ancestral levels in the away environments. | Heredity

Fig. 3: Loss of fitness below the ancestral levels in the away environments.

From: Larger bacterial populations evolve heavier fitness trade-offs and undergo greater ecological specialization

Fig. 3

In each case, the loss in relative fitness was computed as the difference between the descendant population’s relative fitness and the ancestor’s relative fitness. L and S represent large and small populations, respectively. The solid lines in the box plots mark the 25th, 50th, and 75th percentiles, while the whiskers mark the 10th and 90th percentiles; the dashed lines represent means (N = 6). The dotted line represents no loss from the ancestral fitness levels. See the text for details.

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