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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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TWiEVO 38: Evolving to evolve

  • December 24, 2018
  • Tagged as: anti-evolution drug, antibiotic resistance, bacteria, evolution, evolvability, Mfd protein, mutagenesis, mutation rate, RpoB, transcription-coupled repair, UvrA

Nels and Vincent reveal a highly conserved protein that acts as an evolvability factor, increasing mutation and the ability of bacteria to become resistant to antibiotics.

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