Tell Me Where You’ve Been and I’ll Tell You How You’ll Evolve

ABSTRACT The reproducibility of adaptive evolution is a long-standing debate in evolutionary biology. Kempher et al. (M. L. Kempher, X. Tao, R. Song, B. Wu, et al., mBio 11:e00569-20, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.00569-20) used experimental evolution to investigate the effect of previous evolu...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:fefbbb1f04dc4560922934573d931c442021-11-15T16:19:10ZTell Me Where You’ve Been and I’ll Tell You How You’ll Evolve10.1128/mBio.02043-202150-7511https://doaj.org/article/fefbbb1f04dc4560922934573d931c442020-10-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mBio.02043-20https://doaj.org/toc/2150-7511ABSTRACT The reproducibility of adaptive evolution is a long-standing debate in evolutionary biology. Kempher et al. (M. L. Kempher, X. Tao, R. Song, B. Wu, et al., mBio 11:e00569-20, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.00569-20) used experimental evolution to investigate the effect of previous evolutionary trajectories on the ability of microbial populations to adapt to high temperatures. Despite the divergence caused by adaptation to previous environments, all populations reproducibly converged on similar final levels of fitness. Nevertheless, the genetic basis of adaptation depended on past selection experiments, reinforcing the idea that previous adaptation can dictate the trajectories of later evolutionary processes.Marco FumasoniAmerican Society for MicrobiologyarticleDesulfovibrio vulgarisexperimental evolutiongenetic divergenceMicrobiologyQR1-502ENmBio, Vol 11, Iss 5 (2020)
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topic Desulfovibrio vulgaris
experimental evolution
genetic divergence
Microbiology
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spellingShingle Desulfovibrio vulgaris
experimental evolution
genetic divergence
Microbiology
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Marco Fumasoni
Tell Me Where You’ve Been and I’ll Tell You How You’ll Evolve
description ABSTRACT The reproducibility of adaptive evolution is a long-standing debate in evolutionary biology. Kempher et al. (M. L. Kempher, X. Tao, R. Song, B. Wu, et al., mBio 11:e00569-20, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.00569-20) used experimental evolution to investigate the effect of previous evolutionary trajectories on the ability of microbial populations to adapt to high temperatures. Despite the divergence caused by adaptation to previous environments, all populations reproducibly converged on similar final levels of fitness. Nevertheless, the genetic basis of adaptation depended on past selection experiments, reinforcing the idea that previous adaptation can dictate the trajectories of later evolutionary processes.
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title Tell Me Where You’ve Been and I’ll Tell You How You’ll Evolve
title_short Tell Me Where You’ve Been and I’ll Tell You How You’ll Evolve
title_full Tell Me Where You’ve Been and I’ll Tell You How You’ll Evolve
title_fullStr Tell Me Where You’ve Been and I’ll Tell You How You’ll Evolve
title_full_unstemmed Tell Me Where You’ve Been and I’ll Tell You How You’ll Evolve
title_sort tell me where you’ve been and i’ll tell you how you’ll evolve
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