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Title:
The Beagle in a bottle
Authors:
Buckling, Angus; Craig Maclean, R.; Brockhurst, Michael A.; Colegrave, Nick
Affiliation:
AA(Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK.), AB(Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK.), AC(School of Biological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZB, UK.), AD(School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3JT, UK.)
Publication:
Nature, Volume 457, Issue 7231, pp. 824-829 (2009). (Nature Homepage)
Publication Date:
02/2009
Origin:
NATURE
Abstract Copyright:
(c) 2009: Nature
DOI:
10.1038/nature07892
Bibliographic Code:
2009Natur.457..824B

Abstract

Why infer evolution when you can watch it happen in real time? This is the basic premise of using populations of fast-replicating microorganisms in test tubes to study evolution. The approach, known as experimental evolution, has provided a way of testing many of the key hypotheses that arose from the modern evolutionary synthesis. However, details of the unnatural histories of microorganisms in test tubes can be extrapolated only so far. Potential future directions for the approach include studying microbial evolution for its own sake under the most natural conditions possible in the test tube, and testing some qualitative theories of genome evolution.
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