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How could a single mutation have conferred such a dramatically new function?

Despite the fact that the 4-BPB-resistant mutants did not have the desired phenotype in terms of rhoptry discharge and invasion, we sought to determine the identity of the gene in which a mutation had conferred a drug-resistant growth phenotype.

For example, researchers studying the CCR5Δ32 mutation, which substantially protects against HIV infection, proposed that this mutation might have conferred similar protection against bubonic plague (the Black Death) in fourteenth-century Europe.

These mutations could have conferred a new function and then increased selective constraints in Drosophila.

Compensatory mutations might have conferred replicative advantages that could have influenced the displacement of clade II or the persistence of subclade IB in Puerto Rico; however this hypothesis has not been tested.

Therefore, later appearances of the BoxG18A mutation would not have encountered many superior beneficial mutations, assuming that the BoxG18A mutation itself would still have conferred a ~5% advantage in these evolved genetic backgrounds.

Another possibility is that specific mutations in DNA replication, recombination and repair genes, such as the Bmyc10-specific Gly58∏Arg mutation in the mutT2 gene, have conferred a selective advantage to these strains by leading to transient mutator phenotypes resulting in strain evolution [33].

It is possible that mutations in other genes may have conferred the observed phenotypes.

Consequently, clones with spontaneous mutations in the lac operator would have conferred constitutive expression of AcrB, thus providing increased tolerance of n-octane and growth advantage over cells expressing AcrB at basal level under the regulation of wild-type lac operator.

Any random mutation that increased low-light vision would have conferred a distinct survival advantage for these animals.

Thus the mutation conferring white sclera could have become increasingly common among modern humans 40,000 years ago and would have conferred an advantage on those who were hunting with dogs.