This Week in Evolution - Podcast
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This Week in Evolution - Podcast
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Nels and Vincent discuss how behavioural individuality determines infection risk in clonal ant colonies.
Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello
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Infection risk in clonal ant colonies (Nat Comm)
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Nels and Vincent review a study of the key processes required for the different stages of fungal carnivory by a nematode-trapping fungus.
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Fungal carnivory by a nematode-trapping fungus (Plos Biol)
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Nels and Vincent discuss the origins of two modern day agriculturally important plants: a role for two different wild teosintes in making modern maize, and the origin and evolution of the triploid cultivated banana genome.
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Two teosintes made modern maize (Science)
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Evolution of triploid banana genome (Nature)
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Nels and Vincent discuss how the rewetting of seasonally dried soils, a critical event in Mediterranean grasslands that reactivates dormant soil microorganisms, leading to pulses of carbon and nitrogen mineralization, and is accompanied by a bloom of viral diversity, followed by extensive viral community turnover.
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This Week in Evolution - Podcast
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Nels and Vincent take apart an amazing symbiosis consisting of two bacteria, one bacteriophage, and seven different genomes all within a single-celled alga.
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•Join the MicrobeTV Discord server •A single crowded cryptomonad cell (Curr Biol) •Letters read on TWiEVO 94
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Nels and Vincent review a collision of synthetic biology and experimental evolution, using a minimal synthetic bacterial cell with only 473 genes, the smallest genome of any known organism that can be grown in lab culture.
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•Join the MicrobeTV Discord server • Evolution of a minimal cell (Nature)
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Nels and Vincent explain a study of how interspecies competition between two algae influences evolution of metabolism and size.
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•Join the MicrobeTV Discord server • Metabolic evolution during competition (Curr Biol)
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Nels – How amino acids got their names (Source)
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Nels and Vincent discuss new findings using phylogenetic approaches about how complex eukaryotic cells emerged from prokaryotic ancestors, which firmly place eukaryotes as a clade nested within the Asgard archaea.
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•Join the MicrobeTV Discord server •Heimdallarchaeial ancestry of eukaryotes (Nature)
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Nels and Vincent provide insights into the mystery of mouse mummies on the summits of >6000 m Andean volcanoes, including whether they were living there and if so why?
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•Join the MicrobeTV Discord server •Mystery of mouse mummies (bioRxiv)
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Nels – Zoonomia Vincent – SeaPhages
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Nels and Vincent review a study of the dogs of Chernobyl which reveals that genetically distinct populations with different amounts of western breed contributions to their genomes, the first step in assessing the effects of exposure to long-term ionizing radiation.
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•Join the MicrobeTV Discord server •The dogs of Chernobyl (Science Adv) •What the dogs of Chernobyl can teach us (Stat) •Letters ..read more