Evolution of salt tolerance in a laboratory reared population of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

Summary Understanding the genetic underpinnings of adaptive traits in microalgae is important for the study of evolution and for applied uses. We used long‐term selection under a regime of serial transfers with haploid populations of the green alga C hlamydomonas reinhardtii raised in liquid TAP medium containing 200 mM NaCl . After 1255 generations, evolved salt ( ES ) populations could grow as rapidly in high salt medium as progenitor cells...