ArticleJournal of the Royal Society, Interface2015
Experimental evolution gone wild.
Article in Journal of the Royal Society, Interface, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.
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23 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Strain-specific metabarcoding reveals rapid evolution of copper tolerance in populations of the coastal diatom Skeletonema marinoi.Molecular ecology · 2024Article
- How does evolution work in superabundant microbes?Trends in microbiology · 2024Review
- Eco-evolutionary responses of the microbial loop to surface ocean warming and consequences for primary production.The ISME journal · 2022Article
- Temporal escape-adaptation to eutrophication by Skeletonema marinoi.FEMS microbiology letters · 2022Article
- Eco-evolutionary consequences of habitat warming and fragmentation in communities.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2021Article
- Growth strategies of a model picoplankter depend on social milieu andProceedings. Biological sciences · 2021Article
- Company matters: The presence of other genotypes alters traits and intraspecific selection in an Arctic diatom under climate change.Global change biology · 2019Article
- Experimental evolution and the dynamics of adaptation and genome evolution in microbial populations.The ISME journal · 2017Review
- Evolutionary consequences of multidriver environmental change in an aquatic primary producer.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2017Article
- The role of intraspecific variation in the ecological and evolutionary success of diatoms in changing environments.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2017Review
- Soil aggregates as massively concurrent evolutionary incubators.The ISME journal · 2017Article
- Microorganisms and ocean global change.Nature microbiology · 2017Review
- What is adaptation by natural selection? Perspectives of an experimental microbiologist.PLoS genetics · 2017Review
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- Ocean acidification effects on mesozooplankton community development: Results from a long-term mesocosm experiment.PloS one · 2017Article
- Growth rate evolution in improved environments under Prodigal Son dynamics.Evolutionary applications · 2016Article
- Rapid adaptation of harmful cyanobacteria to rising CO2.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2016Article
- Environmental stability affects phenotypic evolution in a globally distributed marine picoplankton.The ISME journal · 2016Article
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Abstract
Because of their large population sizes and rapid cell division rates, marine microbes have, or can generate, ample variation to fuel evolution over a few weeks or months, and subsequently have the potential to evolve in response to global change. Here we measure evolution in the marine diatom Skeletonema marinoi evolved in a natural plankton community in CO2-enriched mesocosms deployed in situ. Mesocosm enclosures are typically used to study how the species composition and biogeochemistry of marine communities respond to environmental shifts, but have not been used for experimental evolution to date. Using this approach, we detect a large evolutionary response to CO2 enrichment in a focal marine diatom, where population growth rate increased by 1.3-fold in high CO2-evolved lineages. This study opens an exciting new possibility of carrying out in situ evolution experiments to understand how marine microbial communities evolve in response to environmental change.
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