Experimental evolution

• Published in: Trends in ecology & evolution (Amsterdam) Vol. 27; no. 10; pp. 547 - 560
• Main Authors: Kawecki, Tadeusz J., Lenski, Richard E., Ebert, Dieter, Hollis, Brian, Olivieri, Isabelle, Whitlock, Michael C.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Kidlington Elsevier Ltd 01.10.2012; Elsevier
• Subjects: Adaptation, Physiological; Animal, plant and microbial ecology; Animals; Applied ecology; Biological and medical sciences; Biological Evolution; Conservation, protection and management of environment and wildlife; evolution; Evolution, Molecular; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; General aspects; Genetics of eukaryotes. Biological and molecular evolution; Humans; Models, Biological; population size; vaccine development; Molecular evolution; Experimental study; Biological evolution; Natural selection

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...