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TWiEVO 17: The curious cases of clam cancers

  • March 13, 2017
  • Tagged as: clam cancer, endogenous retrovirus, evolution, methylation, molluscs, promoter, retrovirus, steamer, transmissible cancer, transposon, TRIM28
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Nels joins Vincent in New York City to speak with Stephen Goff about transmissible clam cancers and the silencing of integrated retroviral genomes.

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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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