Evolution Underway in Prokaryotes
Résumé
Evolution is a phenomenon that escapes immediate attention because changes occur at a very slow pace and are often considered at odds with a religious vision of the world. Using bacteria that replicate so much faster than eukaryotes has permitted to quantify and discern tendencies. Such laboratory evolution implies growth rate, ability to use this or that substrate, but also synthesis and resistance to antibiotics and the ability to interact with eukaryotic hosts
Mots clés
Hypermutagenesis
Infection
Inhibitor
Mobile genetic element
Mutagenesis
Mutation
Mutator
Natural selection
Nitrogen fixation
Nodulation
Phenotype
Punctuated equilibrium
Regulator
Resistance
Saprophyte
Secondary metabolite
Selection
Fitness
Soil
Evolutionary constraint
Stress
Epistasis
Virulence
Endosymbiosis
DNA repair
Directed evolution
Deletion
Cellular network
Artificial selection
Antibiotic
Fixation
Fixism
Historical contingency
Hitchhiking