Adapt or Perish: Evolutionary Rescue in a Gradually Deteriorating Environment
Adapt or Perish: Evolutionary Rescue in a Gradually Deteriorating Environment
We investigate the evolutionary rescue of a microbial population in a gradually deteriorating environment, through a combination of analytical calculations and stochastic simulations. We consider a population destined for extinction in the absence of mutants, which can only survive if mutants sufficiently adapted to the new environment arise and fix. …