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ArticleScience advances2025

Fitness seascapes are necessary for realistic modeling of the evolutionary response to drug therapy.

Eshan S King, Anna E Stacy, Davis T Weaver, Jeff Maltas, Rowan Barker-Clarke, Emily Dolson, Jacob G Scott

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21 citing papers in PubMed.

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  7. Deconstructing empirical fitness seascapes across scales of granularity.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  9. Evolution under vancomycin selection drives divergent collateral sensitivity patterns inProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

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7 authors.

Eshan S KingCase Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0345-3780
Anna E StacyDepartment of Physics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA.ORCID 0009-0004-2985-5616
Davis T WeaverCase Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA.
Jeff MaltasDepartment of Translational Hematology-Oncology Research, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6567-6800
Rowan Barker-ClarkeDepartment of Translational Hematology-Oncology Research, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1961-7919
Emily DolsonDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State University College of Engineering, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8616-4898
Jacob G ScottCase Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2971-7673

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pharmacokinetic (PK) and pharmacodynamic (PD) modeling of host-pathogen interactions has enhanced our understanding of drug resistance. However, how combinations of drug resistance mutations affect dose-response curves remains underappreciated in PK-PD studies. The fitness seascape model addresses this by extending the fitness landscape model to map genotypes to dose-response functions, enabling the study of evolution under fluctuating drug concentrations. Here, we present an empirical fitness seascape in

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Anti-Bacterial AgentsDrug Resistance, BacterialEscherichia coliGenetic FitnessModels, BiologicalMutationAnti-Bacterial Agents

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PMID40498821
PMCPMC12153978

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