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Adaptation under a microscope

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Experiments with microorganisms can guide thinking about the big questions being tackled by evolutionary biologists — for instance, how predation and immigration might play a role in adaptive radiation.

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Figure 1: Bird, fish, spider, bacterium.

M. MOFFETT/MINDEN PICTURES/FLPA, D. LITTSCHWAGER & S. MIDDLETON, A. BANNISTER/NHPA, T. BRAIN/SPL

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  1. Rosemary G. Gillespie is in the Department of Environmental Science, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA. gillespie@berkeley.edu,

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  2. Brent C. Emerson is in the Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Conservation, School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK. b.emerson@uea.ac.uk,

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Gillespie, R., Emerson, B. Adaptation under a microscope. Nature 446, 386–387 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/446386a

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