Experimental Evolution

Experimental evolution is empirical research that investigates evolutionary processes in populations across multiple generations under experimentally defined and reproducible conditions.

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Evolutionary Biology

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Antibiotic Resistance EvolutionClonal InterferenceConvergent EvolutionEvolutionEvolution Of CooperationEvolutionary ConstraintsExperimental Population GeneticsExperimental SpeciationFitness MeasurementFitness Trade-offs

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VII. Mathematical contributions to the theory of evolution.—III. Regression, heredity, and panmixia

Karl Pearson · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series A Containing Papers of a Mathematical or Physical Character · 1896 · 1.7K citations

Life Sciences, Biology, Mathematics +8

Long-Term Experimental Evolution in Escherichia coli. I. Adaptation and Divergence During 2,000 Generations

Richard E. Lenski, Michael R. Rose, Suzanne C. Simpson et al. · The American Naturalist · 1991 · 1.7K citations

Life Sciences, Biology, Evolutionary Biology +17

III. Contributions to the mathematical theory of evolution

Karl Pearson · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London (A ) · 1894 · 1.5K citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Biology, Evolutionary Biology +7

Experimentally induced life-history evolution in a natural population

Heather Bryga, John A. Endler · Nature · 1990 · 1.2K citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Biology, Evolutionary Biology +14

Cryptic multiple hypotheses testing in linear models: overestimated effect sizes and the winner's curse

Wolfgang Forstmeier, Holger Schielzeth · Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology · 2010 · 1.1K citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Biostatistics, Evolutionary Biology +13

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Richard E. Lenski
Michigan State University, United States
40 publications · 7.1K citations
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Christian Schlötterer
University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Austria
24 publications · 2K citations
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Michael R. Rose
University of California, Irvine, United States
22 publications · 4.2K citations
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Michael Travisano
University of Minnesota, United States
14 publications · 2.2K citations
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Albert F. Bennett
University of California, Irvine, United States
13 publications · 2.1K citations
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Evolution
148 publications · 11.1K citations
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
PNAS · 51 publications · 7.2K citations
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Genetics
49 publications · 4.3K citations
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Molecular Biology and Evolution
MBE · 48 publications · 3.6K citations
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Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
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See also Experimental Evolution
Core Methods	Population Growth Rate Analysis Flow Cytometry Approximate Bayesian Computation Long-term Evolution Experiments
Model Organisms	Escherichia Coli Digital Organisms
Selection Regimes	Truncation Selection
Evolutionary Dynamics	Genetic Drift Epistasis Clonal Interference Selection Historical Contingency Recombination Neutral Drift
Applications	Directed Evolution Science Education In Vitro Selection Resistance Risk Prediction Pathogen Evolution Monitoring