Chapter 31
Natural Selection

Natural selection is an evolutionary process in which individuals with survival-promoting traits reproduce at higher rates. These favorable traits…

Natural selection influences the frequencies of particular alleles and phenotypes within populations in several different ways. Primarily, natural…

Multicopy plasmids are extremely abundant in prokaryotes but their role in bacterial evolution remains poorly understood. We recently showed that the…

Directed evolution is defined as a method to harness natural selection in order to engineer proteins to acquire particular properties that are not…