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Rachel Smith

University of ManchesterORCID 0000-0002-4665-7003Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Adaptation to free-living drives loss of beneficial endosymbiosis through metabolic trade-offs

Erika M. Hansson, Irma Vitonytė, Guy Leonard, Rachel Smith, Daniel Malumphy-Montesdeoca, Fiona R. Savory, Perdita E. Barran, Luke T. Dunning, Jon Slate, Thomas A. Richards, Andrew P. Beckerman, Duncan Drummond Cameron, Michael A. Brockhurst

The paper shows that adaptation to free-living conditions in algal endosymbionts leads to loss of host benefits, driven by metabolic trade-offs, with nitrogen availability as a key factor.

bioRxiv · Apr 19, 2026 · PreprintEvolutionary Biology