Experimental evolution
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Experimental evolution is the study of evolutionary processes occurring in experimental populations in response to conditions imposed by the experimenter. This research approach is increasingly used to study adaptation, estimate evolutionary parameters, and test diverse evolutionary hypotheses. Long applied in vaccine development, experimental evolution also finds new applications in biotechnology. Recent technological developments provide a path towards detailed understanding of the genomic and molecular basis of experimental evolutionary change, while new findings raise new questions that can be addressed with this approach. However, experimental evolution has important limitations, and the interpretation of results is subject to caveats resulting from small population sizes, limited timescales, the simplified nature of laboratory environments, and, in some cases, the potential to misinterpret the selective forces and other processes at work.
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Experimental laboratory evolution has been an effective method to study pathways of adaptation in a variety of biological contexts.
“Experimental laboratory evolution has been an effective method to study pathways of adaptation in a variety of biological contexts (Kawecki et al. 2012; Cooper 2018).”
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- Garland, T. and Rose, M.R., eds (2009) Experimental Evolution. University of California Press
- Ray, T.S. (1992) An approach to the synthesis of life. In Artificial Life II (Langton, C.G., et al., eds), pp. 371-408, Springer 124
- Authors
- Kawecki, T. J., Lenski, R. E., Ebert, D., Hollis, B., Olivieri, I., & Whitlock, M. C.
- Affiliations
- University of Lausanne (CH)
- Michigan State University (US)
- University of Basel (CH)
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
- University of British Columbia (CA)
- Corresponding author
- Kawecki, Tadeusz J.
- Venue
- Trends in Ecology & Evolution
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2012-10
- Volume
- 27
- Issue
- 10
- Pages
- 547-560
- ISSN
- 0169-5347 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W4211156702
- Cited by
- 807
- References
- 222
- Citations by year
- 2026: 34 · 2025: 55 · 2024: 68 · 2023: 84 · 2022: 77 · 2021: 68 · 2020: 56 · 2019: 62 · 2018: 44 · 2017: 53 · 2016: 62 · 2015: 52 · 2014: 40 · 2013: 34 · 2012: 7
- FWCI
- 5.20
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- iris.unil.ch
- Locations
- Trends in Ecology & Evolution (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- edoc (University of Basel) (acceptedVersion)
- IRIS (submittedVersion)
- SERVAL (Université de Lausanne) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Funders
- National Science Foundation (0939454, 1019989)
- Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
- Institut Universitaire de France
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
- Social Sciences › Cultural Studies › Language and cultural evolution
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › Philosophy and History of Science
- Keywords
- experimental evolution, adaptation, evolutionary hypothesis, vaccine development, biotechnology applications, selective forces
- MeSH terms
- Adaptation, Physiological, Animals, Biological Evolution, Humans, Models, Biological, Evolution, Molecular
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