ReviewEvolutionary applications2018
Evolution with a seed bank: The population genetic consequences of microbial dormancy.
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- SIESTA Project: Svalbard summer 2025 expedition report.Open research Europe · 2026Article
- Bayesian phylodynamic inference of population dynamics with dormancy.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Macroecological patterns in experimental microbial communities.PLoS computational biology · 2025Article
- Microbial dormancy as an ecological and biogeochemical regulator on Earth.Nature communications · 2025Review
- Bayesian phylodynamic inference of population dynamics with dormancy.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Dormancy in the origin, evolution and persistence of life on Earth.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Review
- Soil phototroph community resilience comes from down under.Frontiers in microbiology · 2025Article
- Trade-offs, trade-ups, and high mutational parallelism underlie microbial adaptation during extreme cycles of feast and famine.Current biology : CB · 2024Article
- Bacteria-phage coevolution with a seed bank.The ISME journal · 2023Article
- Recruitment and migration patterns reveal a key role for seed banks in the meta-population dynamics of an aquatic plant.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Metabolic adaptation to consume butyrate under prolonged resource exhaustion.PLoS genetics · 2023Article
- Active and dormant microorganisms on glacier surfaces.Geobiology · 2023Article
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- Evolutionary genetics of malaria.Frontiers in genetics · 2022Article
- Diversity of Lysis-Resistant Bacteria and Archaea in the Polyextreme Environment of Salar de Huasco.Frontiers in microbiology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Dormancy is a bet-hedging strategy that allows organisms to persist through conditions that are suboptimal for growth and reproduction by entering a reversible state of reduced metabolic activity. Dormancy allows a population to maintain a reservoir of genetic and phenotypic diversity (i.e., a seed bank) that can contribute to the long-term survival of a population. This strategy can be potentially adaptive and has long been of interest to ecologists and evolutionary biologists. However, comparatively little is known about how dormancy influences the fundamental evolutionary forces of genetic drift, mutation, selection, recombination, and gene flow. Here, we investigate how seed banks affect the processes underpinning evolution by reviewing existing theory, implementing novel simulations, and determining how and when dormancy can influence evolution as a population genetic process. We extend our analysis to examine how seed banks can alter macroevolutionary processes, including rates of speciation and extinction. Through the lens of population genetic theory, we can understand the extent that seed banks influence the evolutionary dynamics of microorganisms as well as other taxa.
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