| Description |
x, 277 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Contents |
Experimental evolution: an introduction -- Adaptation to a single environment -- Divergent selection -- Selection in variable environments -- Genomics of adaptation -- Phenotypic disparity -- The rate and extent of diversification -- Adaptive radiation -- Genetics and genomics of diversification -- The nature of biodiversity |
| Summary |
"Why and how did life become so diverse? This has been a central problem in biology. Experimental Evolution and the Nature of Biodiversity explores how diversity evolves in microbial populations that occupy some of the simplest environments imaginable, laboratory test tubes. Microbial evolution experiments allow researchers to watch the evolutionary process unfold in real time while tracking diversification in both phenotype and genotype along the way. When combined with new insights coming from next-generation sequencing, these experiments can tell us much more about the sorts of problems and questions related to adaptation and diversity"-- |
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"Why and how did life become so diverse? This has been a central problem in biology. Experimental Evolution and the Nature of Biodiversity explores how diversity evolves in microbial populations that occupy some of the simplest environments imaginable--laboratory test tubes"-- |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-269) and index |
| Subject |
Biodiversity.
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Biology, Experimental.
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Evolution.
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| LC no. |
2014009628 |
| ISBN |
1936221462 (paperback) |
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9781936221462 (paperback) |
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