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Evolutionary rescue from extinction is contingent on a lower rate of environmental change.

Nature - 28 Feb 2013

Lindsey Haley A, Gallie Jenna, Taylor Susan, Kerr Benjamin

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The extinction rate of populations is predicted to rise under increasing rates of environmental change. If a population experiencing increasingly stressful conditions lacks appropriate phenotypic plasticity or access to more suitable habitats, then genetic change may be the only way to avoid extinction. Evolutionary rescue from extinction occurs when natural selection enriches a population for more...

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Adaptation, Physiological
Antibiotics, Antitubercular
Biological Evolution
Climate Change
Colony Count, Microbial
DNA Mutational Analysis
DNA-Directed RNA Polymerases
Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
Escherichia coli
Escherichia coli Proteins

Methodology Data sources Editorial policy Privacy About Contact Helena Bioinformatics

Extinction, Biological

Genes, Bacterial

Genetic Fitness

Genotype

Human Activities

Microbial Sensitivity Tests

Models, Biological

Mutagenesis

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PMID: 23395960
DOI: 10.1038/nature11879

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