Replaying Evolution to Test the Cause of Extinction of One Ecotype in an Experimentally Evolved Population

Caroline B. Turner; Zachary D. Blount; Richard E. Lenski

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0142050

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Replaying Evolution to Test the Cause of Extinction of One Ecotype in an Experimentally Evolved Population

Caroline B. Turner,

Affiliations Ecology, Evolutionary Biology and Behavior Program, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America, Department of Integrative Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America, BEACON Center for the Study of Evolution in Action, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America
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Zachary D. Blount,

Affiliations BEACON Center for the Study of Evolution in Action, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America
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Richard E. Lenski

* E-mail: lenski@msu.edu

Affiliations Ecology, Evolutionary Biology and Behavior Program, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America, Department of Integrative Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America, BEACON Center for the Study of Evolution in Action, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America
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Replaying Evolution to Test the Cause of Extinction of One Ecotype in an Experimentally Evolved Population

Caroline B. Turner,
Zachary D. Blount,
Richard E. Lenski

Published: November 18, 2015
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0142050
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Article on urging study on persistence of new species

Posted by FrederickCohan on 27 Nov 2015 at 14:16 GMT

After posting my comment, I came across an article by Rosenblum et al. on how speciation may occur at an extremely high rate (much like Mallet's "Speciation is easy!") but that most new species cannot persist. The authors urge study of what it takes for species to persist; it seems that the Turner et al. paper is a great step in that direction.
http://link.springer.com/... (Goldilocks meets Santa Rosalia....)

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