Experimental evolution
Models of Experimental Evolution: The Role of Genetic Chance and Selective Necessity
... of evolution is limited by the chance occurrence of beneficial mutations; when Np is large and selective pressure is strong, the rate-limiting step is the waiting time while existing beneficial mutations sweep ...
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Experimental evolution in coral photosymbionts as a tool to increase thermal tolerance
... Current evidence on the value of members of clade A to the coral host is varied. Clade A Symbiodinium have been associated with the fast colonisation of health-compromised corals (Toller et al., 2001), low transfer of ...
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Evaluating the Impact of Population Bottlenecks in Experimental Evolution
... during experimental evolution has a mean necks) is plotted against the size of the inoculum, using param- that is twice the mean of the underlying distribution of eters that mimic experiments by Burch and ...
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Experiments, Simulations, and Lessons from Experimental Evolution
... from experimental evolution--evolving organisms in a controlled laboratory setting to study evolution via natural selection in real time--to challenge the way we think about these ...from ...
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Characterization of Experimental Evolution and DNA Methylation in the Rice Blast Fungus.
... Applying molecular biology tools and high throughput sequencing, here I address the experimental evolution and contribution of an epigenetic component-DNA methylation to development of[r] ...
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Experimental evolution of sperm count in protandrous self fertilizing hermaphrodites
... count evolution is driven by sexual selection, with an added role of selection on gamete resource allocation for hermaphrodite ...the evolution of reduced investment in sperm or ...the evolution of ...
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The Purposes and Implications of Early Experimental Evolution
... of experimental evolution, I want to present to you some of its early history, with two important conclusions: First, the history of experimental evolution is not the history of the discipline ...
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Experimental Evolution as a High-Throughput Screen for Genetic Adaptations
... by experimental evolution and two successful American Society for Microbiology (ASM) meetings focused on the ...example, experimental evolution has been used to discover: (i) how bacteria ...
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Experimental Evolution Reveals Favored Adaptive Routes to Cell Aggregation in Yeast
... decades, experimental evolution in chemostats with yeast and bacteria has provided valuable insights into evolutionary dynamics, and has proven to be a powerful tool for understanding complex ...methods, ...
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Cancer in Light of Experimental Evolution
... replicate experimental populations, individuals represent different ...in experimental evolution, individuals may represent very different environments for tumour evolution (smokers ...
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Phenotypic plasticity and experimental evolution
... the evolution of increased plasticity in the appropriate direction ...the evolution of phenotypic plasticity, just as they can be used to study any other complex phenotype (Swallow and Garland, ...that ...
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Analysis of genetic systems using experimental evolution and whole-genome sequencing
... life. Evolution acts on biological function, and in viruses functions are often mapped to single ...parallel evolution for cellular life does not necessarily mean similar changes in the same genes but ...
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Experimental evolution of parasite life history in bacteriophage Φ2
... The virulence-transmission trade off is an attractive hypothesis due to its simplicity and generality, and is at the heart of most of the popular recent theories of parasite virulence evolution, but it is far from ...
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Experimental Evolution with Caenorhabditis Nematodes
... the underlying genetic changes responsible for an evolution- ary response—a goal quite apart from that of traditional mu- tagenesis studies. In this age of genomics, many candidate polymorphisms with potentially ...
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EXPERIMENTAL EVOLUTION OF A NEW ENZYMATIC FUNCTION. II. EVOLUTION OF MULTIPLE FUNCTIONS FOR EBG ENZYME IN E. COLI
... With respect to lactose utilization, one strain shows a reduced growth rate, one strain shows no change, and two strains show an increased growth rate.. Examination of the d[r] ...
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Mode of Selection and Experimental Evolution of Antifungal Drug Resistance in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
... ment 1 at the two highest concentrations of FLC. This fitness cost was statistically significant and repeatable even when the progenitor and generation 100 strains but the actual resistance mechanisms documented here ...
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Experimental evolution of herbicide resistance in chlamydomonas reinhardtii
... in experimental evolution (Elena & Lenski ...studying evolution in real time in higher ...in experimental evolution is that they can be frozen and/or stored in suspended animation, ...
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Evolution of divergent female mating preference in response to experimental sexual selection
... alone. Experimental evolution is a promising approach to directly examine the action of sexual selection on mating trait divergence among ...these experimental populations have shown that sexual ...
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First steps in experimental cancer evolution
... Insights from experimental evolution using microbial model systems show that kin competition can indeed drive the evolution of dispersal behaviour. Taylor and Buckling (2010) found that the benefit ...
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Evolution of Divergent Female Mating Preference in Response to Experimental Sexual Selection
... alone. Experimental evolution is a promising approach to directly examine the action of sexual selection on mating trait divergence among ...these experimental populations have shown that sexual ...
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