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Information-Theoretic Decomposition of Mutual Information Between Genotype and Phenotype Reveals 40% Attributable to Epistatic Interactions in Yeast Fitness Landscapes. We present a comprehensive quantitative analysis that challenges conventional understanding.

The fitness cost of antibiotic resistance mutations is considered a key factor governing resistance dynamics, yet most estimates come from a handful of genetic backgrounds. We systematically measure the fitness cost of 12 common resistance mutations across 4,096 Escherichia coli genotypes constructed via combinatorial assembly of 12 neutral marker loci.