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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.

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TWiEVO 22: E pluribus cerevisiae

  • August 30, 2017
  • Tagged as: adaptation, aggregation, biofilm, chemostat, evolution, experimental evolution, FLO, flocculation, multiplexed parallel evolution, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, transposable element, yeast

Maitreya Dunham joins Nels and Vincent to explain how her laboratory uses experimental evolution to study yeast flocculation, the community-building cell aggregation trait.

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TWiEVO 10: Spicing up peppered moths with a selfish gene

  • August 13, 2016
  • Tagged as: carbonaria moth, evolution, industrial melanism, industrial revolution, linkage disequilibrium, peppered moth, transposable element, transposon, typica moth
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Nels and Vincent review experiments showing that the replacement of a pale moth with a black one during the industrial revolution was caused by a transposable element.

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