Tag: mutualism

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This Week in Evolution
This Week in Evolution

TWiEVO 76: One-step symbiosis

March 22, 2022
Tagged as: E. coli, evolution, mutualism, natural selection, reduced genome, stinkbug, symbiont

Nels and Vincent describe how a single amino acid change can allow E. coli to replace the essential gut symbiont of the stinkbug Plautia stali.

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TWiEVO 13: This week in ants

November 15, 2016
Tagged as: ant, Corrie Moreau, evolution, genome, mutualism, natural selection, plant, Pseudomyrmex, symbiosis

Corrie Moreau joins Nels and Vincent to talk about her comparative analysis of the genomes of mutualist ants that nest in plants, and non-symbiotic species.

Tag: mutualism

TWiEVO 76: One-step symbiosis

TWiEVO 13: This week in ants

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