Tag Archives: experimental evolution

BEACON Researchers at Work: Lessons in bacterial evolvability from eventual winners

Posted on September 12, 2011 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by University of Texas at Austin faculty member Jeffrey Barrick. For a long time, I thought that I’d become a synthetic organic chemist. Synthesizing intricate molecules would be a natural next … Continue reading →

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Evolution keeps sex determination flexible

Posted on September 9, 2011 by Danielle Whittaker

There are many old wives’ tales about what determines a baby’s sex, yet it is the tight controls at the gene level which determine an organism’s sex in most species. Researchers at Michigan State University have found that even when … Continue reading →

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BEACON Researchers at Work: Survival of the weakest – when doing poorly does best

Posted on August 29, 2011 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by University of Washington graduate student Joshua Nahum. “Survival of the fittest” is a phrase coined by Herbert Spencer upon his reading of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species to describe the … Continue reading →

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BEACON Researchers at Work: Measuring fitness in the Long Term Evolution Experiment

Posted on August 22, 2011 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by Michigan State University graduate student Mike Wiser. If there’s one thing you can really depend on about life, it’s that it’s constantly changing. Many of us learned in our biology classes … Continue reading →

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