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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. 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.

Table of Contents:
1. Introduction: The problem of biodiversity 2. Experimental evolution and tests of evolutionary theory SECTION 1: ADAPTATION 3. Adaptation: An introduction 4. Adaptation to a single environment 5. Divergent selection 6. Selection in variable environments 7. Genomics of adaptation SECTION 2: DIVERSIFICATION 8. Diversification: An introduction 9. The evolution of phenotypic disparity 10. Rate and extent of diversification 11. Adaptive radiation 12. Genomics of diversification 13. The Nature of Biodiversity

About the Author :
Rees Kassen is Professor and University Research Chair in Experimental Evolution at the University of Ottawa. He completed his PhD at McGill University and did postodoctoral work at the University of Oxford, UK. His research interests focus on understanding the origins and fate of biodiversity, using microbes as models. He is also actively involved in science policy, currently serving as co-chair of the Global Young Academy, an international academy of early-career researchers acting as the voice of young scientists around the world. He is also past chair of the Partnership Group for Science and Engineering, an association of 26 professional and scientific organizations acting on behalf of over 50,000 members from academia, industry, and government in Canada.

Review :
"An enthusiastic and articulate analysis of what the excitement is all about in microbial studies of experimental evolution, how this approach has advanced our understanding of the mechanisms of adaptation and diversification, and what it offers by way of new tests of the most promising theories." - Dolph Schluter, Professor of Evolutionary Biology and a Canada Research Chair in the Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia


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  • ISBN-13: 9781936221462
  • Publisher: MacMillan Learning
  • Publisher Imprint: Roberts & Company Publishers
  • Height: 235 mm
  • Returnable: Y
  • ISBN-10: 1936221462
  • Publisher Date: 02 Jun 2014
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Width: 155 mm


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