Nels and Vincent provide insights into the mystery of mouse mummies on the summits of >6000 m Andean volcanoes, including whether they were living there and if so why?
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.
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.
Nels and Vincent present ancient hepatitis B virus genome sequences from Bronze Age to Medieval period human remains.