Adaptive evolution of complex innovations through stepwise metabolic niche expansion

oleh: Balázs Szappanos, Jonathan Fritzemeier, Bálint Csörgő, Viktória Lázár, Xiaowen Lu, Gergely Fekete, Balázs Bálint, Róbert Herczeg, István Nagy, Richard A. Notebaart, Martin J. Lercher, Csaba Pál, Balázs Papp

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2016-05-01

Deskripsi

A fundamental question in evolutionary biology is how complex innovations requiring multiple genetic changes arise. Here the authors provide lines of evidence that changing environments facilitate the adaptive evolution of complex metabolic innovations via stepwise acquisition of single reactions.