Excited to share our new preprint! w @jfriedman.bsky.social#Microsky#evosky We tackle a simple question - How much of species evolution depends on the presence of other species? Bottom line: Most evolutionary changes were robust across strains that evolved with different biotic partners 1/
Evolution in microbial microcosms is highly parallel regardless of the presence of interacting species https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.12.14.571477v1
During laboratory evolution, replicate bacterial populations often follow similar trajectories, thus
Lets say we want to predict the evo of a species. And say we have a good idea of how it should evolve in response to its abiotic env, but have no idea which species are around or how it should respond to them. Is our prediction worth anything, or a shot in the dark? 2/