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PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Volume 368, Issue 1610, Pages -Publisher
ROYAL SOC
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2012.0089
Keywords
evolutionary demography; experimental evolution; extinction; changing environment; evolution of plasticity; generalism
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- 'ContempEvol' from the ANR 'retour post-doc' programme
- ANR [2010 BLANC 1715 02]
- US National Science Foundation [DEB-0919376]
- [ANR-09-PEXT-011]
- Direct For Biological Sciences [0919230] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Division Of Environmental Biology [0919230] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Division Of Environmental Biology
- Direct For Biological Sciences [0919376] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Population persistence in a new and stressful environment can be influenced by the plastic phenotypic responses of individuals to this environment, and by the genetic evolution of plasticity itself. This process has recently been investigated theoretically, but testing the quantitative predictions in the wild is challenging because (i) there are usually not enough population replicates to deal with the stochasticity of the evolutionary process, (ii) environmental conditions are not controlled, and (iii) measuring selection and the inheritance of traits affecting fitness is difficult in natural populations. As an alternative, predictions from theory can be tested in the laboratory with controlled experiments. To illustrate the feasibility of this approach, we briefly review the literature on the experimental evolution of plasticity, and on evolutionary rescue in the laboratory, paying particular attention to differences and similarities between microbes and multicellular eukaryotes. We then highlight a set of questions that could be addressed using this framework, which would enable testing the robustness of theoretical predictions, and provide new insights into areas that have received little theoretical attention to date.
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