User:Jarle Pahr/Evolution

Notes on evolutionary theory:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_selection

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Genetical_Evolution_of_Social_Behavior

http://www.stephenjaygould.org/library/dawkins_replicators.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Genetical_Evolution_of_Social_Behavior

Counter-intuitive ideas about evolution:

Micro-organisms might evolve to prevent evolution under some circumstances by handicapping themselves: http://schaechter.asmblog.org/schaechter/2010/07/the-uncultured-bacteria.html

www.newscientist.com/channel/life/dn14094-bacteria-make-major-evolutionary-shift-in-the-lab.html

Projects and experiments

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._coli_long-term_evolution_experiment

Related papers:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2430337/

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3461117/

Journals

Molecular biology and evolution: http://mbe.oxfordjournals.org

Software

Avida: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avida

Bibliography

Bacterial Adaptation through Loss of Function : http://www.plosgenetics.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pgen.1003617

Eldar, A. et al. Partial penetrance facilitates developmental evolution in bacteria. Nature 460, 510–514 (2009)

Evolution on genotype networks leads to phenotypic entrapment: http://arxiv.org/abs/1307.0968