Nels and Vincent continue with an emerging sub-theme of TWiEVO – organisms with wings – as they reveal enhancer shuffling as a mechanism for producing diverse butterfly wing patterns.
TWiEVO 5: Looking at straw colored fruit bats through a straw
- February 20, 2016
- Tagged as: bat, Ebolavirus, filovirus, host-virus conflict, NPC1, positive selection, receptor, viral, virology, virus, virus entry, viruses
Sara and Kartik join Nels and Vincent to talk about how the filovirus receptor NPC1 regulates Ebolavirus susceptibility in bats.
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.
TWiEVO 3: Recombination is for the birds
- January 9, 2016
- Tagged as: breakpoint, DNA, evolution, finches, genome, hotspots, meiosis, Molly Przeworski, PRDM9, rearrangment, recombination, SPO11, yeast
Nels and Vincent discuss the evolution of recombination in the genomes of birds and yeast.
TWiEVO 2: Faster than a speeding virus
- December 26, 2015
- Tagged as: APOBEC, enzyme, evolution, HIV, human immunodeficiency virus, mutation, mutation rate, viral, virology, virus, viruses
Nels and Vincent talk about how a cellular enzyme contributes to the very high mutation rate of human immunodeficiency virus type 1.
TWiEVO 1: When (scientific) worlds collide
- December 12, 2015
- Tagged as: arms races, biology, Darwin, evo-devo, evolution, evolutionary, genome, genotype, phenotype, species
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.
