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This Week In Evolution
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This Week in Evolution is a podcast on the biology of what makes us tick. Hosts Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello take you through the new evolution that has been revolutionized by the field of genomics and molecular biology.
This Week In Evolution
2w ago
Nels and Vincent explore a direct experimental test of Ohno’s Hypothesis, which states that gene duplication can help genes tolerate new mutations and thus facilitates the evolution of new phenotypes.
Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello
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Direct test of Ohno’s Hypothesis (eLive)
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This Week In Evolution
2w ago
Rich Condit joins Nels and Vincent at the Science Mill in Johnson City, Texas, where Director of STEM Education Jeehyun Park talks about the goals of the childrens’ museum.
Hosts: Nels Elde, Vincent Racaniello, and Rich Condit
Guest: Jeehyun Park
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The Science Mill
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Nels – Science Mill: More Than a Museum and Elde Lab Video Rich – The ..read more
This Week In Evolution
2M ago
Nels and Vincent explain how deep genomics of macroalgae illuminate multiple paths to aquatic, photosynthetic multicellularity.
Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello
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Paths to aquatic, photosynthetic multicellularity (Mol Plant)
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Nels – 12-sided Roman relic baffles archaeologists, spawns countless theories Vincent – TWiEVO 11: Microbial ..read more
This Week In Evolution
2M ago
Nels and Vincent review the genetic basis for tail-loss evolution in humans and apes.
Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello
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Genetic basis of tail loss evolution in apes (Nature)
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Nels – Will Brie and Camembert Cheeses Go Extinct? Vincent – A True Human Tail in a Neonate: Case report and literature review
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This Week In Evolution
5M ago
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 – Fungi (lichens) in Space Vincent – Polar bear energetic and behavioral strategies on land with implications for surviving the ice-fr ..read more
This Week In Evolution
5M ago
Nels and Vincent review a study of the key processes required for the different stages of fungal carnivory by a nematode-trapping fungus.
Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello
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Fungal carnivory by a nematode-trapping fungus (Plos Biol)
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Nels – Openly available illustrations as tools to describe eukaryotic microbial diversity Vincent – D ..read more
This Week In Evolution
7M ago
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.
Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello
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Two teosintes made modern maize (Science)
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Evolution of triploid banana genome (Nature)
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This Week In Evolution
9M ago
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.
Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello
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This Week In Evolution
10M ago
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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This Week In Evolution
1y ago
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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