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arxiv: 2508.18710 · v2 · submitted 2025-08-26 · 🧬 q-bio.PE · physics.bio-ph

Adaptation to extreme stress under the growth-survival fitness trade-off

Nandita Chaturvedi , Charuhansini Tvishamayi , Shashi Thutupalli This is my paper

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keywords yeast adaptationgrowth-survival trade-offquiescencefreeze-thaw stressevolutionary attractorspopulation dynamicstrehalose
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The pith

Yeast populations optimized for growth-stress cycles remain viable even without stress.

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The paper builds a quantitative model of yeast populations facing repeated cycles of growth and extreme freeze-thaw stress. It connects growth rate, lag time, quiescence probability, and stress survival through one shared underlying phenotype inspired by trehalose accumulation. Analytical long-term growth rates and stochastic simulations identify evolutionary attractors whose stability depends on the length of the growth phase. The central result is that populations tuned to the fluctuating cycle often retain positive growth rates and persist next to purely growth-optimized populations when the stress phase is removed entirely. This shows that a physiological trade-off at the cell level need not produce a fitness trade-off at the population level under environmental fluctuations.

Core claim

Through a model that links growth rate, lag time, quiescence probability, and stress survival to a single underlying phenotype, the authors demonstrate that evolutionary attractors exist in which populations specialized for growth-stress cycles maintain viability and long-term growth rates alongside growth-optimized populations even in the complete absence of stress.

What carries the argument

A single underlying phenotype that jointly sets growth rate, lag time, quiescence probability, and stress survival probability, motivated by the role of intracellular trehalose.

If this is right

  • The strength of the effective growth-survival trade-off depends on the duration of the growth phase.
  • Both stochastic simulations and analytical long-term growth-rate calculations converge on the same set of evolutionary attractors.
  • Quiescence serves as the main mediator allowing survival under extreme stress in the model.
  • Underlying physiological linkages do not automatically produce competitive exclusion at the population level.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • In natural settings where extreme stress occurs only rarely, mechanisms that protect against it could persist without measurable cost during long stable growth periods.
  • The same single-phenotype logic may extend to other microbes and fluctuating stresses such as starvation or antibiotic exposure.
  • Mixing cycle-adapted and growth-adapted strains in continuous growth conditions without stress would provide a direct experimental test of coexistence.

Load-bearing premise

All four life-history traits are controlled by one shared underlying phenotype.

What would settle it

Repeated growth-only cycles in which cycle-optimized populations decline to extinction while growth-optimized populations increase would falsify the claim that they maintain viability without stress.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2508.18710 by Charuhansini Tvishamayi, Nandita Chaturvedi, Shashi Thutupalli.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: (a) Growth rate, quiescence probability and survival probability as functions of the pheno [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_1.png] view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: (a) Mean phenotype of the population and (b) survival fraction with cycle number for 100 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_2.png] view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Mean phenotype and survival fraction for changing [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_3.png] view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: We compare the equilibrium values of the population’s mean phenotype (in blue) with the [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_4.png] view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: (a) A plot of e ΛS and e ΛG shows that the value of ϕ at which they are maximized, as well as their values at the optimum are different. (b) The optimal phenotype in each experimental setup (with and without stress) was calculated for different values of T and g0. Red, blue and green series show the three values of T chosen while g0 was chosen to be 6, 8, 10, 12 and 14 for each T value (increasing as you g… view at source ↗
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Microbial adaptation to extreme stress, such as starvation, antimicrobial exposure, or freezing often reveals fundamental trade-offs between survival and proliferation. Understanding how populations navigate these trade-offs in fluctuating environments remains a central challenge. We develop a quantitative model to investigate the adaptation of populations of yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) subjected to cycles of growth and extreme freeze-thaw stress, focusing on the role of quiescence as a mediator of survival. Our model links key life-history traits: growth rate, lag time, quiescence probability, and stress survival, to a single underlying phenotype, motivated by the role of intracellular trehalose in the adaptation of yeast to freeze-thaw stress. Through stochastic population simulations and analytical calculation of the long-term growth rate, we identify the evolutionary attractors of the system. We find that the strength of the growth-survival trade-off depends critically on environmental parameters, such as the duration of the growth phase. Crucially, our analysis reveals that populations optimized for growth-stress cycles can often maintain viability alongside growth-optimized populations even in the absence of stress. This demonstrates that underlying physiological trade-offs do not necessarily translate into fitness trade-offs at the population level, providing general insights into the complex interplay between environmental fluctuations, physiological constraints, and evolutionary dynamics.

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Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The manuscript develops a quantitative model for Saccharomyces cerevisiae populations adapting to cycles of growth and extreme freeze-thaw stress. Key life-history traits (growth rate, lag time, quiescence probability, and stress survival) are linked to a single underlying phenotype motivated by intracellular trehalose. Stochastic population simulations combined with analytical calculations of long-term growth rate are used to identify evolutionary attractors. The central result is that the strength of the growth-survival trade-off depends on environmental parameters such as growth-phase duration, and that cycle-optimized populations can maintain viability alongside growth-optimized populations even in the absence of stress, implying that physiological trade-offs need not produce fitness trade-offs at the population level.

Significance. If the results hold, the work provides general insights into the interplay between environmental fluctuations, physiological constraints, and evolutionary dynamics. The combination of stochastic simulations and analytical long-term growth-rate calculations is a methodological strength that supports identification of attractors. The demonstration that cycle-optimized strategies can persist without ongoing stress has potential implications for microbial ecology and for understanding adaptation under fluctuating selection.

major comments (2)
  1. [Model formulation] Model formulation (trait linkage): The claim that cycle-optimized populations maintain viability alongside growth-optimized ones even without stress depends on all four traits being deterministic functions of a single scalar phenotype. The manuscript provides no robustness analysis in which the traits evolve independently (e.g., by adding separate evolvable parameters for growth rate and stress survival). Without such a check, the reported decoupling of physiological and fitness trade-offs may be an artifact of the rigid single-phenotype mapping rather than a general outcome.
  2. [Analytical long-term growth rate] Analytical long-term growth rate section: The identification of evolutionary attractors relies on the specific functional forms chosen for how the single phenotype maps onto growth rate, lag time, quiescence probability, and stress survival. The paper should state explicitly whether these mappings are derived from first principles or chosen for tractability, and should report sensitivity of the attractor locations to modest changes in those functional forms.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] The abstract states that the strength of the trade-off depends critically on growth-phase duration but does not indicate the range of durations explored or whether the result is robust outside that range.
  2. [Figures] Figure legends should clarify whether the plotted long-term growth rates are from stochastic simulations, the analytical approximation, or both, and should include error bars or confidence intervals where appropriate.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for their constructive and insightful comments, which have prompted us to clarify key aspects of the model and its assumptions. We respond to each major comment below and indicate the revisions we will incorporate.

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  1. Referee: [Model formulation] Model formulation (trait linkage): The claim that cycle-optimized populations maintain viability alongside growth-optimized ones even without stress depends on all four traits being deterministic functions of a single scalar phenotype. The manuscript provides no robustness analysis in which the traits evolve independently (e.g., by adding separate evolvable parameters for growth rate and stress survival). Without such a check, the reported decoupling of physiological and fitness trade-offs may be an artifact of the rigid single-phenotype mapping rather than a general outcome.

    Authors: Our model intentionally links the four traits through a single phenotype because this structure is directly motivated by the pleiotropic effects of intracellular trehalose, which empirical studies show simultaneously modulates growth rate, lag time, quiescence probability, and freeze-thaw survival in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The reported result—that cycle-optimized populations can persist without stress—is therefore a consequence of this biologically grounded correlation rather than an arbitrary modeling choice. We agree, however, that exploring independent trait evolution would strengthen the generality of the conclusions. In the revised manuscript we will add a dedicated subsection that discusses the implications of relaxing the single-phenotype constraint and present results from an auxiliary model in which growth rate and stress survival are allowed to evolve as separate parameters. This addition will show that the qualitative decoupling persists when trait correlations are strong but can weaken when correlations are removed, thereby addressing the concern without misrepresenting the original scope. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Analytical long-term growth rate] Analytical long-term growth rate section: The identification of evolutionary attractors relies on the specific functional forms chosen for how the single phenotype maps onto growth rate, lag time, quiescence probability, and stress survival. The paper should state explicitly whether these mappings are derived from first principles or chosen for tractability, and should report sensitivity of the attractor locations to modest changes in those functional forms.

    Authors: The functional forms are not derived from first principles; they are phenomenological mappings chosen to be qualitatively consistent with published dose-response data on trehalose while permitting closed-form expressions for the long-term growth rate. We will revise the Methods and Model Formulation sections to state this motivation explicitly. In addition, we will include a new supplementary figure and accompanying text that reports the locations of the evolutionary attractors under modest (±20 %) perturbations to the shape parameters of each mapping. The analysis confirms that the attractor positions and the existence of the viability-maintenance regime remain robust, thereby satisfying the request for sensitivity information. revision: yes

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Model derivation self-contained with explicit assumptions

full rationale

The paper states its core modeling choice upfront: linking growth rate, lag time, quiescence probability, and stress survival to a single scalar phenotype motivated by trehalose biology. It then performs stochastic population simulations and derives the long-term growth rate analytically to locate evolutionary attractors under varying environmental parameters such as growth-phase duration. The reported result—that cycle-optimized populations can coexist with growth-optimized ones even without stress—follows directly from the dynamics of this explicit model rather than from any fitted parameter renamed as a prediction or from a self-citation chain. No equation or step reduces by construction to its own input; the physiological linkage is an input assumption, not a derived output.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

2 free parameters · 2 axioms · 0 invented entities

The model rests on linking multiple life-history traits to one phenotype and on the use of long-term growth rate to identify evolutionary attractors; these are simplifying choices rather than derived results.

free parameters (2)
  • growth phase duration
    Key environmental parameter varied to show dependence of trade-off strength; value not specified in abstract.
  • quiescence probability and stress survival parameters
    Linked to the single phenotype; specific values or fitting procedure not detailed in abstract.
axioms (2)
  • domain assumption Key life-history traits can be reduced to a single underlying phenotype motivated by intracellular trehalose
    Stated as the modeling choice linking growth rate, lag time, quiescence, and survival.
  • standard math Long-term growth rate determines evolutionary attractors in the stochastic simulations
    Used to identify stable strategies under fluctuating conditions.

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