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TWiEVO 8: Everyone's a little bit Neanderthal
TWiEVO 8: Everyone's a little bit Neanderthal
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Length:
98 minutes
Released:
Jun 8, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode
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Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello Nels visits Vincent in the MicrobeTV studio in New York and talks about how key genes of the Homo sapiens innate immune response were acquired from Neanderthals. Links for this episode Introgressed Neanderthal haplotype at OAS locus (biorXiv) Genetic time travel (Genetics) Genetic history of Ice Age Europe (Nature) Letters read on TWiEVO 8 Science Picks Nels - DNA Clues to our Inner Neanderthal Vincent - Blockhead Music on TWiEVO is performed by Trampled by Turtles Send your evolution questions and comments to twievo@microbe.tv Become a patron of TWiEVO
Released:
Jun 8, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (96)
TWiEVO 3: Recombination is for the birds: Hosts: and Nels and Vincent discuss the evolution of recombination in the genomes of birds and yeast. Links for this episode Stable in birds (Science) Putting the breaks on (Science)... by This Week in Evolution