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TWiEVO 69: Swimming in SARS-CoV-2 sequences

  • June 30, 2021
  • Tagged as: coronavirus, COVID-19, evolution, genome sequence, Rhinolophus bats, SARS-CoV-2, Sequence Read Archive, viral, virology, virus, viruses, zoonosis

Nels and Vincent discuss the identification of novel bat coronaviruses that shed light on the evolution of SARS-CoV-2, dating the first cases of COVID-19 to mid-November 2019, and recovery of deleted genome sequences from early in the Wuhan outbreak.

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TWiEVO 36: All’s not quiet on the telomeric front

  • October 24, 2018
  • Tagged as: chromosome, evolution, genome conflict, integrates, jockey, non-LTR retrotransposon, recombination, telomerase, telomere, transposable element

Mia joins Nels and Vincent to unravel their finding that the transposons that maintain the ends of chromosomes in Drosophila have evolved in conflict with the genome.

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TWiEVO 31: Virus archaeology, or when the human genome is the junk

  • May 19, 2018
  • Tagged as: ancient DNA, ancient viral genome, Bronze Age, evolution, hepatitis B virus, Medieval period, viral, virology, virus, virus archaeology

Nels and Vincent present ancient hepatitis B virus genome sequences from Bronze Age to Medieval period human remains.

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