This Week in Evolution

This Week in Evolution

Podcast by 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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episode TWiEVO 112: Sex-Z cephalopods artwork
TWiEVO 112: Sex-Z cephalopods

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

26. maalisk. 2025 - 1 h 27 min
episode TWiEVO 111: Copy that, genome artwork
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 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

26. helmik. 2025 - 1 h 26 min
episode TWiEVO 110: Ants go from carpenters to surgeons artwork
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 [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

22. tammik. 2025 - 1 h 23 min
episode TWiEVO 109: On the origins of orange artwork
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 [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

31. jouluk. 2024 - 1 h 16 min
episode TWiEVO 108: A virus in every parasite artwork
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 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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