Paul B. Rainey
Max Planck Society
235 Papers
1.2K Citations
Paul B. Rainey is an academic researcher from Max Planck Society. The author has contributed to research in topics: Biology & Pseudomonas fluorescens. The author has an hindex of 70, co-authored 222 publications. Previous affiliations of Paul B. Rainey include Massey University & Mansfield University of Pennsylvania.
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Papers
The distribution of fitness effects of new beneficial mutations in Pseudomonas
Michael J. McDonald,Tim F. Cooper,Hubertus J. E. Beaumont,Paul B. Rainey +3 more
- 01 Jan 2016
TL;DR: In this article, the authors report the isolation of 100 adaptive mutants from an ancestral genotype whose fitness in the niche occupied by the derived type is extremely low, and discuss the possibility that general explanations for the shape of the DFE might not be possible in the absence of organism-specific biological details.
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Genetic and ecotypic structure of a fluorescent Pseudomonas population
Bernhard Haubold,Paul B. Rainey +1 more
TL;DR: A significant correlation between isolate distribution and habitat (leaf type and plot) indicates that the population has ecotypic structure and suggests the possibility of frequent large‐scale recombination among certain isolates.
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Within-genome evolution of REPINs: a new family of miniature mobile DNA in bacteria.
Frederic Bertels,Paul B. Rainey +1 more
TL;DR: Analysis of the distribution of REPs in a range of RAYT–containing bacterial genomes, including Escherichia coli K-12 and Nostoc punctiforme, show that REPINs are a widely distributed, but hitherto unrecognized, family of miniature non-autonomous mobile DNA.
Founder niche constrains evolutionary adaptive radiation
TL;DR: These observations provide direct empirical evidence for a link between the niche of organisms and their propensity for adaptive radiation, and reveal a mechanism by which chance may have influenced the tempo of adaptive radiations in natural history.
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The distribution of fitness effects of new beneficial mutations in Pseudomonas fluorescens.
TL;DR: It is argued that, even with detailed knowledge of the genetic architecture underpinning the adaptive types, the DFEs remain unpredictable, and the possibility that general explanations for the shape of the D FE might not be possible in the absence of organism-specific biological details is discussed.