A. Mahilkar

Empirical evidence of resource dependent evolution of payoff matrices in Saccharomyces cerevisiae populations.

This study provides empirical evidence of resource-dependent changes in payoff matrices of Saccharomyces cerevisiae populations, showing three distinct evolutionary outcomes based on carbon source and genotypes.

Rapid evolution of pre-zygotic reproductive barriers in allopatric populations.

This study shows that pre-zygotic reproductive barriers can evolve rapidly in allopatric yeast populations due to natural selection or genetic drift.

Public-good driven release of heterogeneous resources leads to genotypic diversification of an isogenic yeast population in melibiose.

This study shows that an isogenic yeast population diversifies when grown on melibiose due to mutations in the GAL3 gene, which drives the release of a public good enzyme.

Selection in a growing bacterial/yeast colony biases results of mutation accumulation experiments.

This study shows that selection in growing bacterial colonies biases mutation accumulation experiments, affecting mutation rate estimates and the distribution of fitness effects.

Laboratory evolution of anticipatory gene regulation in Escherichia coli.

This study shows that anticipatory gene regulation evolves in E. coli when exposed to cyclical environmental cues, enhancing fitness in alternating conditions.

Evolution of multicellularity and unicellularity in yeast S. cerevisiae to study reversibility of evolutionary trajectories.

This study examines the evolution and reversal of multicellularity in yeast, finding that phenotypic reversal does not mirror the original evolutionary trajectory.