Kayla Stoy (@kaylastoy.bsky.social)

Proud of the work in this new preprint from my postdoctoral research. We used experimental evolution of mutualistically cross-feeding yeast to test how generalized interactions alter benefit evolution and opportunities for coevolution. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1....

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Partner fidelity and coevolution: Useful but not required for rapidly increased mutualistic benefits Evolutionary theory predicts that specialization between mutualistic partners is beneficial, limiting conflict and increasing the opportunity to evolve cooperative benefits through sustained reciproca... https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.07.674547v1#:~:text=Surprisingly%2C%20high%2Dfidelity%20lineages%20evolved,strictly%20required%20for%20mutualistic%20evolution