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TWiEVO 91: Meet your very distant cousins

  • July 17, 2023
  • Tagged as: Archaea, Asgard archaea, eukaryote, evolution, natural selection, phylogenetics

Nels and Vincent discuss new findings using phylogenetic approaches about how complex eukaryotic cells emerged from prokaryotic ancestors, which firmly place eukaryotes as a clade nested within the Asgard archaea.

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TWiEVO 72: Echoes of evolution both shallow and deep

  • October 26, 2021
  • Tagged as: Archaea, bacteria, coronavirus, COVID-19, epidemic, evolution, lipid divide, membrane, natural selection, pandemic, positive selection

Nels and Vincent discuss evolutionary evidence for an epidemic of coronavirus infection over 20,000 years ago in East Asia, and reconstruction of the membrane differences between bacteria and Archaea reveals unexpected differences in permeability.

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