
This Week in Evolution
Podcast af Vincent Racaniello
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.
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Nels and Vincent explain the ancient evolutionary origin of sex in cephalopods. Hosts: Nels Elde [http://cellvolution.org/] and Vincent Racaniello [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Racaniello] Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-week-in-evolution/id1067573465], RSS [http://twievo.libsyn.com/rss], email [http://eepurl.com/Gcw59] Become a patron [https://www.microbe.tv/contribute] of TWiEVO Links for this episode * Join the MicrobeTV Discord server [https://discord.gg/vmnCyBPQds] * Evolution of sex in cephalopods [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982225000053?via%3Dihub] (Current Biol) * Timestamps by Jolene [https://ramseylab.vercel.app/] Science Picks Nels – [https://notebooklm.google/]Speaking into a microphone? Your audio quality can impact the way people view you [https://www.npr.org/2025/03/24/nx-s1-5334468/speaking-into-a-microphone-your-audio-quality-can-impact-the-way-people-view-you] Vincent – Remedy Supported by Kennedy Leaves Some Measles Patients More Ill [https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/health/measles-kennedy-vitamin-a.html] Music on TWiEVO is performed by Trampled by Turtles [http://trampledbyturtles.com/] Send your evolution questions and comments to twievo@microbe.tv

Nels and Vincent explain how template switching during DNA replication is a widespread source of adaptive gene amplification. Hosts: Nels Elde [http://cellvolution.org/] and Vincent Racaniello [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Racaniello] Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-week-in-evolution/id1067573465], RSS [http://twievo.libsyn.com/rss], email [http://eepurl.com/Gcw59] Become a patron [https://www.microbe.tv/contribute] of TWiEVO Links for this episode * Join the MicrobeTV Discord server [https://discord.gg/vmnCyBPQds] * Template switching [https://elifesciences.org/articles/98934] and gene amplification (eLife) * Timestamps by Jolene [https://ramseylab.vercel.app/] Science Picks Nels – [https://notebooklm.google/]Jeremy Berg on Bluesky – jeremymberg.bsky.social Vincent – [https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-04194-4#:~:text=But%20speed%20wasn't%20Lucy's,roughly%208%20metres%20per%20second.]Dickson Despommier, 84 [https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/science/dickson-despommier-dead.html] Music on TWiEVO is performed by Trampled by Turtles [http://trampledbyturtles.com/] Send your evolution questions and comments to twievo@microbe.tv

Nels and Vincent reveal that worker ants amputate their colleagues injured leg to prevent infections. Hosts: Nels Elde [http://cellvolution.org/] and Vincent Racaniello [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Racaniello] Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-week-in-evolution/id1067573465], RSS [http://twievo.libsyn.com/rss], email [http://eepurl.com/Gcw59] Become a patron [https://www.microbe.tv/contribute] of TWiEVO Links for this episode * Join the MicrobeTV Discord server [https://discord.gg/vmnCyBPQds] * Wound-dependent leg amputation [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982224008054?via%3Dihub#kwrds0010] in ants (Curr Biol) * Timestamps by Jolene [https://ramseylab.vercel.app/] Science Picks Nels – [https://notebooklm.google/]The Science Bridge [https://open.spotify.com/show/0Q0bn3GLfREFNKdihtDiRz] Vincent – [https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-04194-4#:~:text=But%20speed%20wasn't%20Lucy's,roughly%208%20metres%20per%20second.]US withdraws from WHO [https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/withdrawing-the-united-states-from-the-worldhealth-organization/] Music on TWiEVO is performed by Trampled by Turtles [http://trampledbyturtles.com/] Send your evolution questions and comments to twievo@microbe.tv

Nels and Vincent discuss the molecular and genetic origins of sex-linked orange coat color in cats. Hosts: Nels Elde [http://cellvolution.org/] and Vincent Racaniello [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Racaniello] Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-week-in-evolution/id1067573465], RSS [http://twievo.libsyn.com/rss], email [http://eepurl.com/Gcw59] Become a patron [https://www.microbe.tv/contribute] of TWiEVO Links for this episode * Join the MicrobeTV Discord server [https://discord.gg/vmnCyBPQds] * Orange coat color [https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.21.624608v1] in cats (bioRxiv) * Timestamps by Jolene [https://ramseylab.vercel.app/] Science Picks Nels – AI takes up science podcasting [https://notebooklm.google/] Vincent – Humans evolved for distance running – but ancestor ‘Lucy’ didn’t go far or fast [https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-04194-4#:~:text=But%20speed%20wasn't%20Lucy's,roughly%208%20metres%20per%20second.] Music on TWiEVO is performed by Trampled by Turtles [http://trampledbyturtles.com/] Send your evolution questions and comments to twievo@microbe.tv

Nels and Vincent review the identification of a novel virus associated with the pathogen Plasmodium knowlsei and which is part part of a diverse and unclassified viral taxon. Hosts: Nels Elde [http://cellvolution.org/] and Vincent Racaniello [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Racaniello] Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-week-in-evolution/id1067573465], RSS [http://twievo.libsyn.com/rss], email [http://eepurl.com/Gcw59] Become a patron [https://www.microbe.tv/contribute] of TWiEVO Links for this episode * Join the MicrobeTV Discord server [https://discord.gg/vmnCyBPQds] * Virus associated with [https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.09.18.613759v1] P. knowlsei (bioRxiv) * Timestamps by Jolene [https://ramseylab.vercel.app/] Science Picks Nels – The peace of wild things, poem by Wendell Berry [https://www.themarginalian.org/2021/03/12/wendell-berry-the-peace-of-wild-things-animated/] Vincent – All Life on Earth Today Descended From a Single Cell. Meet LUCA [https://www.quantamagazine.org/all-life-on-earth-today-descended-from-a-single-cell-meet-luca-20241120/] Music on TWiEVO is performed by Trampled by Turtles [http://trampledbyturtles.com/] Send your evolution questions and comments to twievo@microbe.tv
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