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    This Week in Evolution

    This Week in Evolution

    This Week in Evolution

    ratings:
    Length:
    98 episodes
    Language:
    English
    Format:
    Podcast

    Description

    This Week in Evolution is a podcast on the biology of what makes us tick. Hosts Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello take you through the new evolution that has been revolutionized by the field of genomics and molecular biology.
    Language:
    English
    Format:
    Podcast

    Episodes1 - 10 of 98 episodes

    Title

    TWiEVO 102: Kelp gets some viral help

    Nels and Vincent explain how deep genomics of macroalgae illuminate multiple paths to a...

    90 minutes
    		May 09, 2024

    TWiEVO 101: 99 problems but a tail ain't one

    Nels and Vincent review the genetic basis for tail-loss evolution in humans and apes. H...

    94 minutes
    		May 08, 2024

    TWiEVO 99: A shocking means to move genes

    Nels and Vincent reveal how electric organ discharge from the electric eel facilitates ...

    72 minutes
    		May 08, 2024

    TWiEVO 97: Germs trapping worms

    Nels and Vincent review a study of the key processes required for the different stages ...

    77 minutes
    		Feb 27, 2024

    TWiEVO 98: The worms strike back!

    Nels and Vincent discuss how behavioural individuality determines infection risk in clo...

    79 minutes
    		Feb 27, 2024

    TWiEVO 96: Going bananas over the origins of corn

    Nels and Vincent discuss the origins of two modern day agriculturally important plants...

    89 minutes
    		Dec 26, 2023

    TWiEVO 95: Watering the viruses until they bloom

    Nels and Vincent discuss how the rewetting of seasonally dried soils, a critical event ...

    61 minutes
    		Nov 14, 2023

    TWiEVO 94: A bacteria, a phage, and a selfish element walk into a cryptomonad

    Nels and Vincent take apart an amazing symbiosis consisting of two bacteria, one bacter...

    97 minutes
    		Sep 29, 2023

    TWiEVO 93: Faster than a speeding bacteria

    Nels and Vincent review a collision of synthetic biology and experimental evolution, us...

    90 minutes
    		Aug 25, 2023

    TWiEVO 92: There's algae in the jar

    Nels and Vincent explain a study of how interspecies competition between two algae infl...

    95 minutes
    		Jul 21, 2023