Evolution Underway in Prokaryotes

Sébastien Wielgoss (1) , Pierre Leblond (2) , Catherine Masson-Boivin (3) , Philippe Normand (4)

1 Department of Integrative Biology [Zurich]
2 DynAMic - Dynamique des Génomes et Adaptation Microbienne
3 LIPM - Laboratoire des interactions plantes micro-organismes
4 LEM - Laboratoire d'Ecologie Microbienne - UMR 5557

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

Domaines: Sciences du Vivant [q-bio]

Sébastien Wielgoss, Pierre Leblond, Catherine Masson-Boivin, Philippe Normand. Evolution Underway in Prokaryotes. Sébastien Wielgoss; Pierre Leblond; Catherine Masson-Boivin; Philippe Normand. Prokaryotes and Evolution, Springer International Publishing, pp.339-391, 2019, 978-3-319-99784-1. ⟨10.1007/978-3-319-99784-1_6⟩. ⟨hal-02477674⟩