Mastodawn

Macit et aL investigated selection in response to climate and a geographic mosaic of coevolution between two ant species, a social parasite and its host.

🔗 https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf293

#evobio #molbio #coevolution

Jeremy B. Yoder 🖖🏻🌿🏳️‍🌈📈Nov 24

Treating emergent traits of the microbiome like quantitative genetic traits of the host reveals how environmentally acquired symbionts can contribute to hosts' adaptation

https://doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpaf171

#science #evolution #microbiome #coevolution

Quantitative genetics of microbiome-mediated traits

Microbiomes, the complex communities of microorganisms associated with multicellular hosts, play a vital role in shaping host traits and fitness. But how d

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Jeremy B. Yoder 🖖🏻🌿🏳️‍🌈📈Nov 17

Nifty preprint with an experiment coevolving Brassica rapa with pollinating, herbivorous butterflies. With bumblebee co-pollinators or heat stress added, the plants evolved stronger anti-herbivore defense; with both bees and heat, they evolved... to attract butterflies?

https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.11.06.686912

#science #coevolution #pollination

Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦Nov 4

“Many contemporary #socialscience approaches ignore the #coevolutionary framework, instead focusing too much on linear regressions. Our world is better understood through #complex #reciprocal #interactions.” (More from the #BrianKlaas piece on #coevolution) open.substack.com/pub/briankla...

"Good Heavens what insect can ...

"Good Heavens what insect can suck it?"

The stranger-than-fiction miracles of coevolution in nature and human society. (Or: what connects avocados, ants who farm fungus, karma, and our relationship with dogs?)

The Garden of Forking Paths

Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦Nov 4

Apparently there really are #zombies. Zombie #ants, that is. This piece on #coevolution by #BrianKlaas is fascinating. open.substack.com/pub/briankla...

Jeremy B. Yoder 🖖🏻🌿🏳️‍🌈📈Oct 31

Experimentally co-evolved E. coli and yeast achieve stable coexistence — and the coevolved E. coli, but not the yeast, is able to resist invasion by other bacterial strains

https://doi.org/10.1007/s00248-025-02618-w

#science #evolution #coevolution #ecology

Jeremy B. Yoder 🖖🏻🌿🏳️‍🌈📈Sep 30

So this came online over the weekend: My dive into the "definition" of coevolution is online ahead of publication in @journal_evo

Don’t ask "when is it coevolution?" — ask "how?"

https://doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpaf194

#science #evolution #ecology #SpeciesInteractions #coevolution #history

Don’t ask “when is it coevolution?” — ask “how?”

Abstract. Coevolution has come to be widely understood as specific, simultaneous, reciprocal adaptation by pairs of interacting species. This strict-sense

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