Rapid temporal adaptation structures tolerance to toxic cyanobacteria in a natural population of the water flea Daphnia.
Maxime Fajgenblat, Emma Gouwy, Manon Coone, Rafaela A. Almeida, Alice Boudry, Kiani Cuypers, Edwin van den Berg, Isabel Vanoverberghe, Luc De Meester, Ellen Decaestecker
The paper tests whether Daphnia magna can adapt within a growing season to changes in Microcystis strains, finding higher survival when exposed to strains from the same time point.
Evolution Letters · May 31, 2025Peer-reviewedEvolutionary Biology