Article
Laboratory selection quickly erases historical differentiation.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2014
Fragata Inês, Simões Pedro, Lopes-Cunha Miguel, Lima Margarida, Kellen Bárbara, Bárbaro Margarida, Santos Josiane, Rose Michael R, Santos Mauro, Matos Margarida
Abstract excerpt
The roles of history, chance and selection have long been debated in evolutionary biology. Though uniform selection is expected to lead to convergent evolution between populations, contrasting histories and chance events might prevent them from attaining the same adaptive state, rendering evolution somewhat unpredictable. The predictability of evolution has been supported by several studies documenting repeatable...
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