Ignacio J. Melero-Jiménez
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Ignacio J. Melero-Jiménez
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Assistant Professor at @univmalaga.bsky.social | Exploring how photosynthetic microbes adapt to stress 🧪 | Combining experimental evolution, ecology & cutting-edge sequencing to predict adaptation 🔬
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1/ In our new paper, we explored whether obligate mutualisms can survive abrupt stress via evolutionary rescue.

We found that evolutionary rescue is possible—but it comes at the cost of mutualism. @jfriedman.bsky.social

#microsky #evosky #mevosky
Mutualism breakdown underpins evolutionary rescue in an obligate cross-feeding bacterial consortium - Nature Communications
Rapid genetic adaptation to environmental change, or evolutionary rescue, can be constrained by a less adaptable mutualistic partner. Here, the authors explore evolutionary rescue in an obligate mutua...
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1/ In our new paper, we explored whether obligate mutualisms can survive abrupt stress via evolutionary rescue.

We found that evolutionary rescue is possible—but it comes at the cost of mutualism. @jfriedman.bsky.social

#microsky #evosky #mevosky
Mutualism breakdown underpins evolutionary rescue in an obligate cross-feeding bacterial consortium - Nature Communications
Rapid genetic adaptation to environmental change, or evolutionary rescue, can be constrained by a less adaptable mutualistic partner. Here, the authors explore evolutionary rescue in an obligate mutua...
www.nature.com
April 14, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Reposted by Ignacio J. Melero-Jiménez
I just posted "Some Experiments Work, and Some Don't."

It features this new paper from Paul Rainey's group, along with a *failed* experiment that Paul Sniegowski and I ran in the 1990s trying to test the same idea.

telliamedrevisited.wordpress.com/2025/02/21/s...
February 21, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Reposted by Ignacio J. Melero-Jiménez
Happy to share our latest manuscript we we study evolutionary rescue in a bacterial mutualism:
Reversion to metabolic autonomy underpins evolutionary rescue of a bacterial obligate mutualism
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Reversion to metabolic autonomy underpins evolutionary rescue of a bacterial obligate mutualism
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July 3, 2024 at 2:05 PM