Rapid compensatory evolution can rescue low fitness symbioses following partner switching (Current Biology, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.06.034)
Authors: Megan E.S. Sørensen, A. Jamie Wood, Duncan D. Cameron, Michael A. Brockhurst
Impact: This paper used experimental evolution to show that a novel, non-beneficial association can rapidly evolve to become a beneficial symbiosis through alterations to metabolism and symbiont regulation.
Collaborators (Names, titles, universities) : Prof Michael Brockhurst (Manchester University), Prof Duncan Cameron (Sheffield University), Dr A. Jamie Wood (University of York)