We found that evolutionary rescue occurred often, and in a surprising way (at least to us).

To learn more, check out the thread (in the other place) by lead author Ignacio Melero-Jimenez:

x.com/Ignamelero/s...

Thanks, Ben!

We'll definitely take a closer look at your paper.
Just a speculation, but @nittaym.bsky.social suggested that perhaps D. hansenii has a stronger influence since it grows earlier within each transfer and thus can exert stronger selection on S. xylosus.

Finally, any and all feedback would be greatly appreciated.

We have not yet submitted this manuscript, so we still have a chance to address issues and avoid (some of) the wrath of Reviewer 2...

Check out Nittay's thread or the preprint for more details on our system and results, and for our ideas about why we got these results and what influences the extent to which evolution will depend on the presence of additional species. >>

We had all sorts of fun theoretical expectations for how coevolution would be different.

But we were wrong - the majority of evolutionary changes were independent of whether species evolved alone or with another species. >>