Article
The repeatability of adaptive radiation during long-term experimental evolution of Escherichia coli in a multiple nutrient environment.
PloS one - 2 Dec 2010
Saxer Gerda, Doebeli Michael, Travisano Michael
Abstract excerpt
Adaptive radiations occur when a species diversifies into different ecological specialists due to competition for resources and trade-offs associated with the specialization. The evolutionary outcome of an instance of adaptive radiation cannot generally be predicted because chance (stochastic events) and necessity (deterministic events) contribute to the evolution of diversity. With increasing contributions of...
Topics
- Adaptation, Physiological
- Bacterial Physiological Phenomena
- Biodiversity
- Ecology
- Environment
- Escherichia coli
- Evolution, Molecular
- Genetic Variation
- Phenotype
- Reproducibility of Results
- Stochastic Processes