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TWiEVO 93: Faster than a speeding bacteria

  • August 24, 2023
  • Tagged as: adaptation, cell size, evolution, JCVI-syn3B, minimal cell, natural selection

Nels and Vincent review a collision of synthetic biology and experimental evolution, using a minimal synthetic bacterial cell with only 473 genes, the smallest genome of any known organism that can be grown in lab culture.

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TWiEVO 92: There’s algae in the jar

  • July 21, 2023
  • Tagged as: cell size, competition, evolution, K selected trait, metabolic theory, metabolism, mutation, natural selection, r selected trait

Nels and Vincent explain a study of how interspecies competition between two algae influences evolution of metabolism and size.

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