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- Title
Highlight: Taking a Closer Look at Experimental Evolution.
- Authors
McGrath, Casey
- Abstract
Humans have unwittingly been carrying out evolution experiments for millennia through the domestication of plants, animals, and fungi. To see whether similar dynamics were at play for other proteins, Cohen and Hershberg looked at 19 other proteins containing adaptive mutations associated with resource exhaustion. According to co-author Ruth Hershberg, associate professor at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, "Our results show that lab adaptation, which occurs in response to fairly simple and strong pressures, may often occur through mutations that either cannot occur in nature, or are very transient, if they do occur.".
- Subjects
DOMESTICATION of animals; RNA polymerases; DOMESTICATION of plants; BIOLOGICAL evolution; PROTEIN domains
- Publication
Genome Biology & Evolution, 2022, Vol 14, Issue 9, p1
- ISSN
1759-6653
- Publication type
Book Review
- DOI
10.1093/gbe/evac124