TWiEVO 125: Evolution's egg timer
Nels and Vincent discuss the development of a comprehensive transcriptomic atlas of early embryogenesis from 61 animal species to understand...
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20 of 101 episodesTWiEVO 124: The little ribozyme that could
Nels and Vincent discuss the discovery of a short RNA with the ability to catalyze its own synthesis. Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniell...
TWiEVO 123: Stinkbug eggs with a schmear of fungus
Nels and Vincent explain how stinkbug females smear fungus on their eggs to protect them from wasp parasitism. Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent...
TWiEVO 122: The evolution of selfishness
Nels and Vincent explain how selfishness evolved multiple times from an essential tRNA synthetase gene in a nematode. Hosts: Nels Elde and V...
TWiEVO 121: AI imagines viruses
Nels and Vincent examines the use of AI and genome language models to design novel derivatives of bacteriophage phiX174. Hosts: Nels Elde an...
TWiEVO 120: Sparkle pony
Nels and Vincent explain research which shows that insertion of a retrovirus into the genome regulates a novel color trait in swordtail fish...
TWiEVO 119: Drive fast, take chances, and encode a Y chromosome
Nels and Vincent explain research attempting to explain why among humans, females around the world live on average 5 years longer than males...
TWiEVO 118: Mother of an unrelated brother
Nels and Vincent discuss research which shows a shift from the rule that living organisms produce same-species offspring: an ant that produc...
TWiEVO 117: Genes that don't leave
Nels and Vincent discuss research on hidden evolutionary constraints that dictate the retention of coronavirus accessory gene, which was fla...
TWiEVO 116: An ant and two fungi walk into a bar and meet a naked mole rat
Nels and Vincent review research on how neuropeptides influence the behavior of leafcutter ants, and regulate the different caste behaviors...
TWiEVO 115: Even the archaea are going viral
Nels and Vincent discuss an ultra reduced archaeal genome, the closest cellular entity to date that approaches a viral strategy of existence...
TWiEVO 114: The best experiments ever done
Nels and Vincent review the properties of Mendel's pea genes through the lens of modern genetic analysis. Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racan...
TWiEVO 113: A wolf in wolf's clothing
Nels and Vincent explain the ancestry and evolution of the extinct dire wolf. Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello Subscribe (free): Appl...
TWiEVO 112: Sex-Z cephalopods
Nels and Vincent explain the ancient evolutionary origin of sex in cephalopods. Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello Subscribe (free): Ap...
TWiEVO 111: Copy that, genome
Nels and Vincent explain how template switching during DNA replication is a widespread source of adaptive gene amplification. Hosts: Nels El...
TWiEVO 110: Ants go from carpenters to surgeons
Nels and Vincent reveal that worker ants amputate their colleagues injured leg to prevent infections. Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniell...
TWiEVO 109: On the origins of orange
Nels and Vincent discuss the molecular and genetic origins of sex-linked orange coat color in cats. Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello...
TWiEVO 108: A virus in every parasite
Nels and Vincent review the identification of a novel virus associated with the pathogen Plasmodium knowlsei and which is part part of a div...
TWiEVO 107: One small step for cells, one giant step for cell kind
Nels and Vincent discuss the origins of eukaryotes, with contributions from at least 3 bacteria (alphaproteobacteria) and a large contributi...
TWiEVO 106: What's old immunity is new again
Nels and Vincent explain how homology searches of anti-phage systems in eukaryotic genomes can be used to discover proteins of the human imm...
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