Article
The probability of evolutionary rescue: towards a quantitative comparison between theory and evolution experiments.
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences - 19 Jan 2013
Martin Guillaume, Aguilée Robin, Ramsayer Johan, Kaltz Oliver, Ronce Ophélie
Abstract excerpt
Evolutionary rescue occurs when a population genetically adapts to a new stressful environment that would otherwise cause its extinction. Forecasting the probability of persistence under stress, including emergence of drug resistance as a special case of interest, requires experimentally validated quantitative predictions. Here, we propose general analytical predictions, based on diffusion approximations, for the...
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- Adaptation, Biological
- Animals
- Biological Evolution
- Biota
- Computer Simulation
- Empirical Research