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TWiEVO 29: Evolution on the wing

  • March 21, 2018
  • Tagged as: blood feeding, blood meal, evolution, evolution of virulence, house finch, incomplete immunity, mosquito, mycoplasma, natural selection, nonbiting mosquito, transcriptome

Nels and Vincent discuss the evolution of blood feeding to nonbiting in a mosquito, and evolution of bacterial virulence in the house finch caused by incomplete host immunity.

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TWiEVO 25: Pigeons show the way

  • November 22, 2017
  • Tagged as: drift, evolution, extinction, genome, mitochondrial genome, mutation, natural selection, passenger pigeon, population

Nels and Vincent discuss a genomic analysis of the passenger pigeon, which shows that species with large and stable populations may be at risk of extinction after a sudden environmental change.

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TWiEVO 20: In the company of cnidarians

  • June 19, 2017
  • Tagged as: cnidarian, coral, dinoflagellate, evolution, natural selection, sea anemone, symbiosis, thrombospondin type 1 protein repeat, TSR protein
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Nels and Vincent explore the role of TSR proteins during colonization of cnidarians by dinoflagellates.

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TWiEVO 19: The beauty of the story

  • May 24, 2017
  • Tagged as: Beak of the Finch, evolution, Jonathan Weiner, journalism, Long for This World, natural selection, Pulitzer Prize, science writing, Seymour Benzer, social amoeba, Time Love Memory
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Jonathan Weiner, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Beak of the Finch, joins Nels and Vincent to talk about his career and his writing.

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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
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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.

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