Fig. 3: Pleiotropic responses of evolved populations in synonymous environments.
From: Effects of resource packaging on the adaptative and pleiotropic consequences of evolution
We tested the fitness (r and K) of the three sets of evolved populations in away environments, in which the source of carbon was a synonymous sugar, and checked if fitness gains in home and away environments were correlated. For each set of evolved population, there were two synonymous away environments in our experiment. (a, b) show the relative gains in home and away environments, in r and K, respectively. The error bars indicate the propagated uncertainties. We count the number of distinct types of pleiotropic effects. As shown in (c) (growth rate) and (d) (yield), the relative frequencies of the three types of pleiotropic responses are different for different sets of evolved populations.
