Phenotypic and molecular evolution across 10,000 generations in laboratory budding yeast populations
M. S. Johnson, S. Gopalakrishnan, J. Goyal, M. E. Dillingham, C. W. Bakerlee, P. T. Humphrey, T. Jagdish, E. R. Jerison, K. Kosheleva, K. R. Lawrence, J. Min, A. Moulana, A. M. Phillips, J. C. Piper, R. Purkanti, , M. M. Desai
This study tracks phenotypic and molecular evolution in 205 yeast populations over 10,000 generations, revealing patterns of declining adaptability, mutation accumulation, and genetic parallelism.
bioRxiv · Oct 9, 2020Evolutionary Biology