ReviewEMBO reports2019
Microbial Experimental Evolution - a proving ground for evolutionary theory and a tool for discovery.
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- Toward a Functional Genetics of Adaptation: Insights From Microbial Experimental Evolution.Genome biology and evolution · 2026Review
- Rapid evolution in necromass use under resource limitation reduces persistence in producer-decomposer microbial biospheres.Communications biology · 2026Article
- Disruption of bacteriophage integration site promotes rapid diversification of multicellular traits inMicrobiology spectrum · 2026Article
- Parallel but distinct adaptive routes in the budding and fission yeasts after 10,000 generations of experimental evolution.Nature ecology & evolution · 2026Article
- Studying adaptation at the invisible scale.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Using TraDIS as a complementary approach to long term evolution for mapping adaptive mutations in Escherichia coli.PLoS genetics · 2026Article
- Putting BASIL in a BLT: A Bayesian filtering method for estimating the fitness effects of nascent adaptive mutations.PLoS computational biology · 2026Article
- Historical contingency limits adaptive diversification in a spatially structured environment.Evolution letters · 2026Article
- Repeatability of gene expression evolution in experimental environmental adaptation.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Experimental Evolution of PathogenicMicroorganisms · 2026Review
- Transcription Factor Promiscuity Drives Regulatory Rewiring and Evolvability in Gene Networks in Bacteria.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026Article
- Resisting the gallium "Trojan horse": Experimental evolutionary insights into microbial resistance.Gene & protein in disease · 2026Article
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- Adaptive tracking with antagonistic pleiotropy results in seemingly neutral molecular evolution.Nature ecology & evolution · 2025Article
- deepBreaks identifies and prioritizes genotype-phenotype associations using machine learning.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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- Adaptation and Plasticity ofEvolutionary applications · 2025Article
- Iterative SCRaMbLE for engineering synthetic genome modules and chromosomes.Nature communications · 2025Article
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Abstract
Microbial experimental evolution uses controlled laboratory populations to study the mechanisms of evolution. The molecular analysis of evolved populations enables empirical tests that can confirm the predictions of evolutionary theory, but can also lead to surprising discoveries. As with other fields in the life sciences, microbial experimental evolution has become a tool, deployed as part of the suite of techniques available to the molecular biologist. Here, I provide a review of the general findings of microbial experimental evolution, especially those relevant to molecular microbiologists that are new to the field. I also relate these results to design considerations for an evolution experiment and suggest future directions for those working at the intersection of experimental evolution and molecular biology.
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