Table 1 Fitness values of the clonal viruses Qβ(wt) and Qβ(A1956G) at different replication temperatures.

From: Evolutionary adaptation of an RNA bacteriophage to the simultaneous increase in the within-host and extracellular temperatures

Temperature

Virus

Qβ(wt)

Qβ(A1956G)

37 °C

16.2 ± 0.1

16.5 ± 0.5 (P = 0.17)

30 °C

13.3 ± 0.3

13.5 ± 0.3 (P = 0.23)

43 °C

7.2 ± 0.3

8.8 ± 0.6 (P = 0.02)

  1. The values represent the average and the standard deviation of three independent determinations carried out as described in Methods. The P value (Student’ t test) for the difference of means between the viruses Qβ(wt) and Qβ(A1956G) at each temperature is also indicated.
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