The new paper submission: “Resource ratio fluctuations drive the evolution of microbial metabolic strategies” (Zihan Wang, Jacopo Grilli, Akshit Goyal, Sergei Maslov) https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.18.695187. In this project, we look at how fluctuations in the ratios of resources can steer evolution between specialist and co-utilizing strategies, with lag times playing an outsize role in what wins.
The earlier preprint https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.06.14.599039 is now blessed with a fresh set of reviewer opinions from PLoS Comp Bio. Thankfully, they all seem pretty straightforward to address. Zihan and I will start working on it in January.