Experimental evolution.
- Kawecki TJ Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, CH 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland. tadeusz.kawecki@unil.ch
- Lenski RE
- Ebert D
- Hollis B
- Olivieri I
- Whitlock MC
- 2012-07-24
Published in:
- Trends in ecology & evolution. - 2012
Adaptation, Physiological
Animals
Biological Evolution
Evolution, Molecular
Humans
Models, Biological
English
Experimental evolution is the study of evolutionary processes occurring in experimental populations in response to conditions imposed by the experimenter. This research approach is increasingly used to study adaptation, estimate evolutionary parameters, and test diverse evolutionary hypotheses. Long applied in vaccine development, experimental evolution also finds new applications in biotechnology. Recent technological developments provide a path towards detailed understanding of the genomic and molecular basis of experimental evolutionary change, while new findings raise new questions that can be addressed with this approach. However, experimental evolution has important limitations, and the interpretation of results is subject to caveats resulting from small population sizes, limited timescales, the simplified nature of laboratory environments, and, in some cases, the potential to misinterpret the selective forces and other processes at work.
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- English
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- DOI 10.1016/j.tree.2012.06.001
- PMID 22819306
- Persistent URL
- https://sonar.ch/global/documents/100042
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