The experimental evolution of specialists, generalists, and the maintenance of diversity

R Kassen - Journal of evolutionary biology, 2002 - academic.oup.com
experiments to test directly the evolutionary fate of diversity … the literature on experimental
evolution in heterogeneous … , explanation for patterns of diversity in nature. More specifically, I …

Experimental design, population dynamics, and diversity in microbial experimental evolution

B Van den Bergh, T Swings, M Fauvart… - … and Molecular Biology …, 2018 - Am Soc Microbiol
… formulated to explain the emergence and maintenance of sexual reproduction, such as …
therefore been proposed as one possible driver for its maintenance (303). Indeed, sex unlinks …

On the experimental evolution of specialization and diversity in heterogeneous environments

JN Jasmin, R Kassen - Ecology letters, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
… As patches become more highly contrasted, selection becomes more divergent, which
will lead to the emergence and maintenance of diversity (large ovals showing a negative …

Partial selfing can reduce genetic loads while maintaining diversity during experimental evolution

IM Chelo, B Afonso, S Carvalho… - G3: Genes …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
diversity that may be important for future adaptation. To address this hypothesis, we compare
the experimental evolution of … (SNPs) during experimental evolution and among the inbred …

Experimental evolution reveals hidden diversity in evolutionary pathways

PA Lind, AD Farr, PB Rainey - elife, 2015 - elifesciences.org
… natural and experimental organisms often show evidence of parallel genetic evolution, but
… fluorescens arises repeatedly during experimental evolution. The mutational causes reside …

Experimental evolution

TJ Kawecki, RE Lenski, D Ebert, B Hollis… - … in ecology & evolution, 2012 - cell.com
… genetic and molecular basis of experimental evolution. We define experimental evolution
as the study of evolutionary changes occurring in experimental populations as a consequence …

Differential evolution with enhanced diversity maintenance

J Chacón Castillo, C Segura - Optimization Letters, 2020 - Springer
… This section presents the experimental study carried out to validate the performance of de-edm.
Specifically, we show that by explicitly controlling the diversity in de, results of state-of-the…

Experimental niche evolution alters the strength of the diversity–productivity relationship

D Gravel, T Bell, C Barbera, T Bouvier, T Pommier… - Nature, 2011 - nature.com
experimental evolution with a BEF experiment. We isolated 20 bacterial strains from a marine
environment and evolved … We then tested the effect of evolutionary history on the strength …

Fluctuating environments maintain genetic diversity through neutral fitness effects and balancing selection

F Abdul-Rahman, D Tranchina… - … Biology and Evolution, 2021 - academic.oup.com
… In natural environments, experimental variables are difficult to control. Experimental evolution
… We find that the maintenance of genetic diversity in fluctuating environments is a result of a …

Evolution of genetic diversity in metapopulations: Arabidopsis thaliana as an experimental model

C Lavigne, X Reboud, M Lefranc… - … , Selection, Evolution …, 2001 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… genetic diversity, and (ii) regeneration methods allowing maintenance of the initial diversity,
… mutations, and avoidance of the "evolutionary freeze" of populations removed from their …