Link: Dark flies
A laboratory at Kyoto University has been maintaining a long-term evolution experiment on fruit flies that started in 1954. Now the flies are adapted to livi...
All posts tagged with experimental evolution
Notable: Coevolution drives biological complexity
Notable paper: Zaman L, Meyer JR, Devangam S, Bryson DM, Lenski RE, et al. (2014) Coevolution Drives the Emergence of Complex Traits and Promotes Evolvabilit...
Bacterial evolution
Carl Zimmer reports on an experiment from Richard Lenski’s lab, reconstructing the events that led one lineage of bacteria to win out over another. Lenski ha...