Suffering makes you weaker: Limited evolutionary adaptation in competitively inferior populations

• Published in: Ecology letters Vol. 27; no. 6; pp. e14457 - n/a
• Main Authors: Chen, Nan, Zhang, Quan‐Guo
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.06.2024
• Subjects: Adaptation; Adaptation, Physiological; Biological Evolution; coculture; E coli; Ecological adaptation; Escherichia coli; Escherichia coli - physiology; Evolution; evolutionary adaptation; experimental evolution; extinction; Feedback; Interspecific; interspecific competition; local adaptation; Monoculture; Population number; population size; Population studies; Populations; Pseudomonas fluorescens; Pseudomonas fluorescens - genetics; Pseudomonas fluorescens - physiology; species; Temperature; Temperature gradients; temperature; local adaptation; evolutionary adaptation; experimental evolution; extinction
• ISSN: 1461-023X; 1461-0248; 1461-0248
• DOI: 10.1111/ele.14457

Interspecific competition can hinder populations from evolutionarily adapting to abiotic environments, particularly by reducing population size and niche space; and feedback may arise between competitive ability and evolutionary adaptation. Here we studied populations of two model bacterial species,...