Article
Environment-dependent costs and benefits of recombination in independently evolved populations of Escherichia coli.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Aug 2020
Wang Yinhua, Cooper Tim F
Abstract excerpt
Understanding of the causes by which reproductive isolation arises remains limited. We examine the role of adaptation in driving reproductive isolation among 12 Escherichia coli populations evolved in two different environments. We found that, regardless of whether parents were selected in the same or different environments, the average fitness of recombinants was lower than the expected, consistent with a...
Topics
- Adaptation, Biological
- Biological Evolution
- Environment
- Escherichia coli
- Genetic Fitness
- Mutation
- Recombination, Genetic
- Reproductive Isolation
- Selection, Genetic