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- Title
Fold or hold: experimental evolution in vitro.
- Authors
Collins, S; Rambaut, A; Bridgett, S J
- Abstract
We introduce a system for experimental evolution consisting of populations of short oligonucleotides (Oli populations) evolving in a modified quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR). It is tractable at the genetic, genomic, phenotypic and fitness levels. The Oli system uses DNA hairpins designed to form structures that self-prime under defined conditions. Selection acts on the phenotype of self-priming, after which differences in fitness are amplified and quantified using qPCR. We outline the methodological and bioinformatics tools for the Oli system here and demonstrate that it can be used as a conventional experimental evolution model system by test-driving it in an experiment investigating adaptive evolution under different rates of environmental change.
- Publication
Journal of evolutionary biology, 2013, Vol 26, Issue 10, p2123
- ISSN
1420-9101
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1111/jeb.12233