Reducing the ionizing radiation background does not significantly affect the evolution of Escherichia coli populations over 500 generations
PIQUEMAL, Fabrice
Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane [LSM]
Centre d'Etudes Nucléaires de Bordeaux Gradignan [CENBG]
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Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane [LSM]
Centre d'Etudes Nucléaires de Bordeaux Gradignan [CENBG]
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en
Article de revue
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Scientific Reports. 2019, vol. 9, n° 1, p. 14891
Nature Publishing Group
English Abstract
Over millennia, life has been exposed to ionizing radiation from cosmic rays and natural radioisotopes. Biological experiments in underground laboratories have recently demonstrated that the contemporary terrestrial radiation ...Read more >
Over millennia, life has been exposed to ionizing radiation from cosmic rays and natural radioisotopes. Biological experiments in underground laboratories have recently demonstrated that the contemporary terrestrial radiation background impacts the physiology of living organisms, yet the evolutionary consequences of this biological stress have not been investigated. Explaining the mechanisms that give rise to the results of underground biological experiments remains difficult, and it has been speculated that hereditary mechanisms may be involved. Here, we have used evolution experiments in standard and very low-radiation backgrounds to demonstrate that environmental ionizing radiation does not significantly impact the evolutionary trajectories of E. coli bacterial populations in a 500 generations evolution experiment.Read less <
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