recombination | This Week in Evolution

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TWiEVO 55: Coronavirus evolution from soup to nuts

May 6, 2020
Tagged as: coronavirus, CoV, COVID-19, error correction, evolution, exonuclease, founder effect, recombination, SARS-CoV-2, selection, spike glycoprotein, viral, virology, virus

Nels and Vincent continue their discussion of SARS-CoV-2 evolution, with a report that the coronavirus proofreading enzyme stimulates RNA recombination, and debunking the conclusion that a change in the viral spike glycoprotein is associated with increased human to human transmission.

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TWiEVO 47: On the origin of beer species

September 19, 2019
Tagged as: admixture, ale, allele, beer yeast, evolution, fermentation, lager, natural selection, polyploidy, recombination, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, wine

Nels and Vincent trace the origins of Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains used to make beer, and find that ales and lagers are made with yeasts that were derived from those used to make European grape wine and Asian rice wine.

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TWiEVO 36: All’s not quiet on the telomeric front

October 24, 2018
Tagged as: chromosome, evolution, genome conflict, integrates, jockey, non-LTR retrotransposon, recombination, telomerase, telomere, transposable element

Mia joins Nels and Vincent to unravel their finding that the transposons that maintain the ends of chromosomes in Drosophila have evolved in conflict with the genome.