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TWiEVO 77: The mutations of our lives

  • April 26, 2022
  • Tagged as: age, cancer, evolution, germline mutation, mammal, mutation, mutation rate, natural selection, somatic mutation

Alex joins Nels and Vincent to discuss his work which demonstrates that somatic mutation rates scale with lifespan in mammals.

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TWiEVO 76: One-step symbiosis

  • March 22, 2022
  • Tagged as: E. coli, evolution, mutualism, natural selection, reduced genome, stinkbug, symbiont

Nels and Vincent describe how a single amino acid change can allow E. coli to replace the essential gut symbiont of the stinkbug Plautia stali.

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TWiEVO 75: Even the BANAL coronaviruses are interesting

  • February 24, 2022
  • Tagged as: coronavirus, Laos, pandemic, Rhinolophus bat, SARS-CoV-2, spillover, virology, virus, viruses, zoonosis

Nels and Vincent review isolation of SARS-CoV-2-like viruses from bats in Laos that can replicate in human cells.

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TWiEVO 74: On racism, not race with Joe Graves

  • February 3, 2022
  • Tagged as: evolution, natural selection, race, racism

Joe Graves joins Nels and Vincent to discuss his career in evolutionary biology and his recent book that answers questions about race and racism.

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