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Kayla S. Stoy

Florida State UniversityORCID 0000-0002-5058-5145Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Partner fidelity and coevolution: Useful but not required for rapidly increased mutualistic benefits

Kayla S. Stoy, Dung T. Lac, William C. Ratcliff

The paper shows that partner fidelity enhances mutualistic benefits but is not required for their evolution in yeast.

bioRxiv · Sep 7, 2025 · PreprintEvolutionary Biology

Multiple pathways to the evolution of positive assortment in aggregative multicellularity

Kayla S. Stoy, Kathryn A. MacGillivray, Anthony Burnetti, Cornelia Barrett, William C. Ratcliff

This study shows that genetic assortment in yeast evolved indirectly through cell-level selection, not directly for collective-level benefits, revealing constraints on aggregative multicellularity.

bioRxiv · Feb 17, 2025 · PreprintEvolutionary Biology