Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello

Nels and Vincent continue with an emerging sub-theme of TWiEVO - organisms with wings - as they reveal how enhancer shuffling produces diverse butterfly wing patterns.

Links for this episode

• Enhancer shuffling for butterfly wing patterns (PLoS Biol)
• Batesian mimicry (Wikipedia)
• Müllerian mimicry (Wikipedia)
• Image credit
• Letters read on TWiEVO 6

Science Picks

Nels - Hill Country Science Mill
Vincent - The Butterfly Conservatory

Listener Pick

Stephen - Darwin Legacy

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Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello

Guests: Kartik Chandran and Sara Sawyer

Sara and Kartik join Nels and Vincent to talk about the filovirus receptor NPC1 regulates Ebolavirus susceptibility in bats.

Links for this episode

• Sara on TWiV #193
• Kartik on TWiV #314
• NPC1 and bat susceptibility to Ebolaviruses (eLife)

Science Picks

Nels - Sundance Film Festival and Meru
Vincent - Quanta podcast (iTunes)
Sara - Isolation of Marburg viruses from fruit bats

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Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello

Guest: Nitin Phadnis

Nitin joins Nels and Vincent to explain how he identified a gene that is responsible for male inviability in hybrids from a cross between two species of fruit flies.

Links for this episode

• Cell cycle regulation gene causes hybrid inviability in fruit fly (Science)
• Phadnis laboratory
• Phadnis laboratory on Facebook
• Gene for new species discovered (UNews)
• Tardigrade HGT disputed (bioRxiv)
• Photo credit: Lee J. Siegel, University of Utah

Science Picks

Nels - Watercolor of Darwin and crew
Vincent - SpaceX rocket landing (Verge and ArsTechnica)
Nitin - 120th anniversary of Roentgen's first X-ray

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Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello

Nels and Vincent discuss the evolution of recombination in the genomes of birds and yeast.

Links for this episode

• Stable recombination hotspots in birds (Science)
• Putting the breaks on meiosis (Science)
• Evolutionary stability of recombination in yeast (Science)
• Image credit

Science Picks

Nels - Tardigrade horizontal gene transfer (The Atlantic article)
Vincent - Einstein's theory of relativity changed everything

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Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello

Nels and Vincent talk about how a cellular enzyme contributes to the very high mutation rate of human immunodeficiency virus type 1.

Links for this episode

• Cell defense enzyme drives high HIV mutation rate (PLoS Biol)
• High mutation rate of HIV in vivo (PLoS Biol)
• High viral mutation rates are beneficial (virology blog)
• Image credit

Science Picks

Nels - Antelope Island State Park (Bison herders wanted)
Vincent - Processed meats cause cancer

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Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello

Nels and Vincent launch a new podcast on evolution, and start by discussing how the field has changed through recent mergers of evolutionary and experimental biology in the post-genome era.

Links for this episode

• Elde Laboratory
• Nels on TWiV 234
• Mechanistic approaches to the study of evolution (Nat Rev Gen)
• Australian sheep blowfly (Wikipedia)
• Hopi Hoekstra

Science Picks

Nels - Your inner fish (video stream, Shubin website)
Vincent - Prelude to Foundation by Isaac Asimov

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