- Title Pages
- Dedication
- List of Contributors
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1 Darwin’s Other Mistake -
2 The Importance of Experimental Studies in Evolutionary Biology -
3 Modeling Experimental Evolution Using Individual-Based, Variance-Components Models -
4 Experimental Evolution from the Bottom Up -
5 Experimental Evolutionary Domestication -
6 Long-Term Experimental Evolution and Adaptive Radiation -
7 The Experimental Study of Reverse Evolution -
8 Field Experiments, Introductions, and Experimental Evolution -
9 Fitness, Demography, and Population Dynamics in Laboratory Experiments -
10 Laboratory Selection Studies of Life-History Physiology in Insects -
11 Behavior and Neurobiology -
12 Selection Experiments and Experimental Evolution of Performance and Physiology -
13 Through a Glass, Clearly -
14 Understanding Evolution through the Phages -
15 Experimental Approaches to Studying the Evolution of Animal form -
16 Sexual Exploits in Experimental Evolution -
17 Physiological Adaptation in Laboratory Environments -
18 Evolution of Aging and Late Life -
19 Theoretical and Experimental Approaches to the Evolution of Altruism and the Levels of Selection -
20 Laboratory Experiments on Speciation -
21 A Critique of Experimental Phylogenetics -
22 Laboratory Evolution Meets Catch-22 - Index
Experimental Evolution from the Bottom Up
Experimental Evolution from the Bottom Up
- Chapter:
- (p.66) (p.67) 4 Experimental Evolution from the Bottom Up
- Source:
- Experimental Evolution
- Author(s):
Daniel E. Dykhuizen
Anthony M. Dean
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
This chapter focuses on the bottom-up approach used to understand the nature of natural selection, and begins by discussing a bottom-up analysis of the lactose system. The study of lactose metabolism by Escherichia coli provides a tractable experimental system where mechanistic predictions about the direction and intensity of selection can be tested decisively. The chapter also illustrates other ways in which bottom-up experiments in evolution can be done. They can be used to study glucose metabolism in Drosophila and the genotype-phenotype map for single genes. The bottom-up approach can also be used to examine the similarities and differences in vision for organisms in different environments.
Keywords: bottom-up approach, natural selection, lactose metabolism, Escherichia coli, glucose metabolism, Drosophila
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- List of Contributors
-
1 Darwin’s Other Mistake -
2 The Importance of Experimental Studies in Evolutionary Biology -
3 Modeling Experimental Evolution Using Individual-Based, Variance-Components Models -
4 Experimental Evolution from the Bottom Up -
5 Experimental Evolutionary Domestication -
6 Long-Term Experimental Evolution and Adaptive Radiation -
7 The Experimental Study of Reverse Evolution -
8 Field Experiments, Introductions, and Experimental Evolution -
9 Fitness, Demography, and Population Dynamics in Laboratory Experiments -
10 Laboratory Selection Studies of Life-History Physiology in Insects -
11 Behavior and Neurobiology -
12 Selection Experiments and Experimental Evolution of Performance and Physiology -
13 Through a Glass, Clearly -
14 Understanding Evolution through the Phages -
15 Experimental Approaches to Studying the Evolution of Animal form -
16 Sexual Exploits in Experimental Evolution -
17 Physiological Adaptation in Laboratory Environments -
18 Evolution of Aging and Late Life -
19 Theoretical and Experimental Approaches to the Evolution of Altruism and the Levels of Selection -
20 Laboratory Experiments on Speciation -
21 A Critique of Experimental Phylogenetics -
22 Laboratory Evolution Meets Catch-22 - Index
