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TWiEVO 86: Pulling out the stops in genetic code evolution

  • February 2, 2023
  • Tagged as: anticodon, eRF1, evolution, natural selection, protein synthesis, protist, stop codon, tRNA

Nels and Vincent discuss how evolution of changes in stop codon assignment might occur, and a novel mechanism for altering the meaning of translation stop codons discovered in a trypanosomatid with the apropos name, Blastocrithidia nonstop.

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TWiEVO 24: Good viruses visiting bad neighborhoods

  • October 26, 2017
  • Tagged as: Coxsackievirus, evolution, influenza virus, quasispecies, sequence space, stop codon, Vignuzzi, viral, virology, virus, viruses

Marco Vignuzzi joins Nels and Vincent to discuss recent work from his laboratory on redirecting RNA virus evolution in sequence space.

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