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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 39: In a Legionella of their own

  • January 26, 2019
  • Tagged as: amoeba, DOT/ICM, effector proteins, evolution, evolve, horizontal gene transfer, host range, intracellular bacteria, Legionella

Nels and Vincent look at the intracellular bacteria Legionella from an evolutionary perspective: the role of gene acquisition and reshuffling from plants, animals, fungi, and archaea in the emergence of human pathogens.

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TWiEVO 37: A tangled tree on the Quammens

  • November 17, 2018
  • Tagged as: Carl Woese, Charles Darwin, David Quammen, evolution, evolutionary tree, horizontal gene transfer, Lynn Margulis, phylogenomics, The Tangled Tree

David Quammen joins Nels and Vincent to talk about his new book, A Tangled Tree, including evolutionary trees, Carl Woese, Lynn Margulis, horizontal gene transfer, and much more.

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