IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/nat/nature/v494y2013i7438d10.1038_nature11879.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Evolutionary rescue from extinction is contingent on a lower rate of environmental change

Author

Listed:
  • Haley A. Lindsey

    (University of Washington)

  • Jenna Gallie

    (University of Washington
    Department of Environmental Microbiology
    Department of Environmental Systems Science)

  • Susan Taylor

    (University of Washington)

  • Benjamin Kerr

    (University of Washington)

Abstract

Populations experiencing environmental change can often only avoid extinction through evolutionary change; in a system in which Escherichia coli has to evolve resistance to an antibiotic, the authors show that gradual environmental change allows mutational pathways that rapid change precludes, and can therefore make the difference between extinction and survival.

Suggested Citation

  • Haley A. Lindsey & Jenna Gallie & Susan Taylor & Benjamin Kerr, 2013. "Evolutionary rescue from extinction is contingent on a lower rate of environmental change," Nature, Nature, vol. 494(7438), pages 463-467, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:494:y:2013:i:7438:d:10.1038_nature11879
    DOI: 10.1038/nature11879
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature11879
    File Function: Abstract
    Download Restriction: Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1038/nature11879?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Juan Diaz-Colunga & Alvaro Sanchez & C. Brandon Ogbunugafor, 2023. "Environmental modulation of global epistasis in a drug resistance fitness landscape," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 14(1), pages 1-9, December.
    2. Longcamp, Alexander & Draghi, Jeremy, 2023. "Evolutionary rescue via niche construction: Infrequent construction can prevent post-invasion extinction," Theoretical Population Biology, Elsevier, vol. 153(C), pages 37-49.
    3. Greenspoon, Philip B. & Mideo, Nicole, 2017. "Evolutionary rescue of a parasite population by mutation rate evolution," Theoretical Population Biology, Elsevier, vol. 117(C), pages 64-75.
    4. Jia Zheng & Ning Guo & Yuxiang Huang & Xiang Guo & Andreas Wagner, 2024. "High temperature delays and low temperature accelerates evolution of a new protein phenotype," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 15(1), pages 1-14, December.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:494:y:2013:i:7438:d:10.1038_nature11879. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.nature.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.