TWiEVO 3: Recombination is for the birds

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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