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TWiEVO 62: Army ants with Daniel Kronauer

  • December 7, 2020
  • Tagged as: adaptation, ant queen, ant worker, army ant, clonal raider ant, ecology, eusocial insect, evolution, natural selection

Daniel joins Nels and Vincent to discuss his new book on army ants, the wickedest insects ever to roam the planet, and his research on them and clonal raider ants.

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TWiEVO 49: A giant podcast on giant viruses

  • November 29, 2019
  • Tagged as: ecology, evolution, giant virus, horizontal gene transfer, natural selection, NCLDV, Nucleocytoplasmic large DNA containing viruses, phycodnavirus, Ringberg, viral, virology, virophage, virus, viruses

Rich joins Nels and Vincent for a debriefing on the 4th Ringberg Symposium on Giant Virus Biology in Tegernsee, Germany.

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TWiEVO 43: Social evolution with a side of shrimp

  • May 25, 2019
  • Tagged as: ecology, evolution, genome architecture, snapping shrimp, social behavior, social transitions, Synalpheus

Dustin Rubinstein joins Nels and Vincent to discuss coevolution of genome architecture and social behavior, and studying social transitions in sponge-dwelling snapping shrimp.

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