The Beagle in a bottle

被引：158

作者：

Buckling, Angus ^{[1
]}

Maclean, R. Craig ^{[1
]}

Brockhurst, Michael A. ^{[2
]}

Colegrave, Nick ^{[3
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Oxford, Dept Zool, Oxford OX1 3PS, England

[2] Univ Liverpool, Sch Biol Sci, Liverpool L69 3ZB, Merseyside, England

[3] Univ Edinburgh, Sch Biol Sci, Edinburgh EH9 3JT, Midlothian, Scotland

来源：

NATURE | 2009年 / 457卷 / 7231期

关键词：

TERM EXPERIMENTAL EVOLUTION; HIGH MUTATION-RATES; ESCHERICHIA-COLI; EXPERIMENTAL POPULATIONS; PSEUDOMONAS-AERUGINOSA; ADAPTIVE RADIATION; SOCIAL-BEHAVIOR; ADAPTATION; DYNAMICS; COEVOLUTION;

D O I：

10.1038/nature07892

中图分类号：

O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];

学科分类号：

07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;

摘要：

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.

引用

页码：824 / 829

页数：6

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