This Week in Evolution
Summary: 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.
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- Artist: Vincent Racaniello
- Copyright: Copyright 2020 Vincent Racaniello
Podcasts:
TWiEVO 11: Microbial accomplices in multicellularity
TWiEVO 10: Spicing up peppered moths with a selfish gene
TWiEVO 9: How to crash your gene drive
TWiEVO 8: Everyone's a little bit Neanderthal
TWiEVO 7: Pigeon fashion week, feathery boots edition
TWiEVO 6: Butterflies are free to shuffle
TWiEVO 5: Looking at straw colored fruit bats through a straw
Nitin joins Nels and Vincent to explain how he identified a gene that is responsible for male inviability in hybrids from a cross between two species of fruit flies.
Nels and Vincent discuss the evolution of recombination in the genomes of birds and yeast.
Nels and Vincent talk about how a cellular enzyme contributes to the very high mutation rate of human immunodeficiency virus type 1.
Nels and Vincent launch a new podcast on evolution, and start by discussing how the field has changed through recent mergers of evolutionary and experimental biology in the post-genome era.
