Emergence and maintenance of stable coexistence during a long-term multicellular evolution experiment
R. Pineau, D. Demory, E. Libby, D. T. Lac, T. Day, P. Bravo, J. Weitz, P. J. Yunker, G. O. Bozdag, W. C. Ratcliff
This study shows how multicellularity evolves through niche partitioning and adaptive divergence in snowflake yeast, leading to stable coexistence via a trade-off between size and competitiveness for oxygen.
bioRxiv · Jan 19, 2023Evolutionary Biology