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Adaptive Evolution: Don't Fix What's Broken.

Authors :
Liu G
Rancati G
Source :
Current biology : CB [Curr Biol] 2016 Feb 22; Vol. 26 (4), pp. R169-71.
Publication Year :
2016

Abstract

Evolution of budding yeast after the removal of an important component of the polarization machinery, BEM1, followed reproducible evolutionary trajectories governed by epistasis. Interestingly, cells restored polarization not by finding a substitute for Bem1 but by rendering its function dispensable.<br /> (Copyright © 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.)

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
1879-0445
Volume :
26
Issue :
4
Database :
MEDLINE
Journal :
Current biology : CB
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
26906489
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2015.12.029