Open AccessExperimental Design, Population Dynamics, and Diversity in Microbial Experimental Evolution
Author(s) -
Bram Van den Bergh,
Toon Swings,
Maarten Fauvart,
Jan Michiels
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
microbiology and molecular biology reviews
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 6.358
H-Index - 247
eISSN - 1098-5557
pISSN - 1092-2172
DOI - 10.1128/mmbr.00008-18
Subject(s) - biology , experimental evolution , natural selection , adaptation (eye) , selection (genetic algorithm) , diversity (politics) , popularity , evolutionary biology , life span , population , ecology , biological evolution , adaptive evolution , dynamics (music) , observable , computer science , artificial intelligence , genetics , demography , physics , neuroscience , social psychology , anthropology , psychology , gene , sociology , quantum mechanics , acoustics
In experimental evolution, laboratory-controlled conditions select for the adaptation of species, which can be monitored in real time. Despite the current popularity of such experiments, nature's most pervasive biological force was long believed to be observable only on time scales that transcend a researcher's life-span, and studying evolution by natural selection was therefore carried out solely by comparative means.
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