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TWiEVO 8: Everyone’s a little bit Neanderthal

  • June 8, 2016
  • Tagged as: adaptive introgression, evolution, genome sequence, haplotype, innate immunity, introgression, Neanderthal, OAS, oligoadenylate synthetase
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Nels visits Vincent in the MicrobeTV studio in New York and talks about how key genes of the Homo sapiens innate immune response were acquired from Neanderthals.

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