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TWiEVO 10: Spicing up peppered moths with a selfish gene

TWiEVO 10: Spicing up peppered moths with a selfish gene

FromThis Week in Evolution


TWiEVO 10: Spicing up peppered moths with a selfish gene

FromThis Week in Evolution

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Length:
95 minutes
Released:
Aug 13, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello 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.   Links for this episode Last experiment of Michael Majerus (Biol Lett) Moth melanism mutation is transposon (Nature) Image credit Letters read on TWiEVO 10 Science Picks Nels - Is Pokémon Go good for science? (one, two, three) Vincent - Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli 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:
Aug 13, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode

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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.