Evolutionary consequences of nascent multicellular life cycles
J. T. Pentz, K. MacGillivray, J. G. DuBose, P. L. Conlin, E. Reinhardt, E. Libby, W. C. Ratcliff
This study evolves yeast populations to test if clonal development facilitates multicellular adaptation, finding that clonal yeast shifted fitness to group-level benefits while floc yeast retained cell-level selection.
bioRxiv · Jul 21, 2022Evolutionary Biology