TWiEVO 94: A bacteria, a phage, and a selfish element walk into a cryptomonad
Release Date: 09/29/2023
TWiEVO 115: Even the archaea are going viral
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TWiEVO 114: The best experiments ever done
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Nels and Vincent review the properties of Mendel’s pea genes through the lens of modern genetic analysis. Hosts: and Subscribe (free): , , of TWiEVO Links for this episode Join the Insights into (Nature) Timestamps by Science Picks Nels – Vincent – Music on TWiEVO is performed by Send your evolution questions and comments to [email protected]
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TWiEVO 113: A wolf in wolf's clothing
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Nels and Vincent explain the ancestry and evolution of the extinct dire wolf. Hosts: and Subscribe (free): , , of TWiEVO Links for this episode Join the Evolution and ancestry of (bioRxiv) Timestamps by Science Picks Nels – Vincent – Music on TWiEVO is performed by Send your evolution questions and comments to [email protected]
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TWiEVO 112: Sex-Z cephalopods
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Nels and Vincent explain the ancient evolutionary origin of sex in cephalopods. Hosts: and Subscribe (free): , , of TWiEVO Links for this episode Join the Evolution of (Current Biol) Timestamps by Science Picks Nels – Vincent – Music on TWiEVO is performed by Send your evolution questions and comments to [email protected]
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TWiEVO 111: Copy that, genome
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Nels and Vincent explain how template switching during DNA replication is a widespread source of adaptive gene amplification. Hosts: and Subscribe (free): , , of TWiEVO Links for this episode Join the and gene amplification (eLife) Timestamps by Science Picks Nels –Jeremy Berg on Bluesky – jeremymberg.bsky.social Vincent – Music on TWiEVO is performed by Send your evolution questions and comments to [email protected]
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TWiEVO 110: Ants go from carpenters to surgeons
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Nels and Vincent reveal that worker ants amputate their colleagues injured leg to prevent infections. Hosts: and Subscribe (free): , , of TWiEVO Links for this episode Join the Wound-dependent in ants (Curr Biol) Timestamps by Science Picks Nels – Vincent – Music on TWiEVO is performed by Send your evolution questions and comments to [email protected]
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TWiEVO 109: On the origins of orange
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Nels and Vincent discuss the molecular and genetic origins of sex-linked orange coat color in cats. Hosts: and Subscribe (free): , , of TWiEVO Links for this episode Join the in cats (bioRxiv) Timestamps by Science Picks Nels – Vincent – Music on TWiEVO is performed by Send your evolution questions and comments to [email protected]
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TWiEVO 108: A virus in every parasite
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Nels and Vincent review the identification of a novel virus associated with the pathogen Plasmodium knowlsei and which is part part of a diverse and unclassified viral taxon. Hosts: and Subscribe (free): , , of TWiEVO Links for this episode Join the P. knowlsei (bioRxiv) Timestamps by Science Picks Nels – Vincent – Music on TWiEVO is performed by Send your evolution questions and comments to [email protected]
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TWiEVO 107: One small step for cells, one giant step for cell kind
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Nels and Vincent discuss the origins of eukaryotes, with contributions from at least 3 bacteria (alphaproteobacteria) and a large contribution from DNA viruses with large genomes. Hosts: and Subscribe (free): , , of TWiEVO Links for this episode Join the during eukaryogenesis (bioRxiv) Timestamps by Science Picks Nels – Vincent – Music on TWiEVO is performed by Send your evolution questions and comments to [email protected]
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TWiEVO 106: What's old immunity is new again
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Nels and Vincent explain how homology searches of anti-phage systems in eukaryotic genomes can be used to discover proteins of the human immune system. Hosts: and Subscribe (free): , , of TWiEVO Links for this episode Join the from antiphage systems (Cell Host Micro) Timestamps by Science Picks Nels – Vincent – Music on TWiEVO is performed by Send your evolution questions and comments to [email protected]
info_outlineNels and Vincent take apart an amazing symbiosis consisting of two bacteria, one bacteriophage, and seven different genomes all within a single-celled alga.
Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello
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