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The Beagle in a bottle

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  • Angus Buckling

    (University of Oxford)

  • R. Craig Maclean

    (University of Oxford)

  • Michael A. Brockhurst

    (School of Biological Sciences, University of Liverpool)

  • Nick Colegrave

    (School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh)

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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  • Angus Buckling & R. Craig Maclean & Michael A. Brockhurst & Nick Colegrave, 2009. "The Beagle in a bottle," Nature, Nature, vol. 457(7231), pages 824-829, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:457:y:2009:i:7231:d:10.1038_nature07892
    DOI: 10.1038/nature07892
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    1. Marie Rescan & Daphné Grulois & Enrique Ortega Aboud & Pierre de Villemereuil & Luis-Miguel Chevin, 2021. "Predicting population genetic change in an autocorrelated random environment: Insights from a large automated experiment," PLOS Genetics, Public Library of Science, vol. 17(6), pages 1-23, June.

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