Evidence for Toxin-Encoding Coinfections Driving Intransitive Dynamics Between Allelopathic Phenotypes in Natural Yeast Populations
Thomas J. Travers-Cook, Emmy Gonzalez-Gonzalez, Jukka Jokela, Kayla C. King, Sarah J. Knight, Claudia C. Buser
The paper shows that toxin-producing yeast strains are outcompeted by resistant strains, leading to intransitive dynamics driven by coinfections in natural yeast populations.
Journal of Evolutionary Biology · Dec 17, 2025Peer-reviewedEvolutionary Biology