This Week in Evolution

Nels and Vincent dive deep into evolution and consider how new proteins emerged billions of years ago, when there were no other proteins to serve as starting material.

Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello

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• Primordial emergence of a nucleic acid binding protein (bioRxiv)
• Tawfik laboratory
• Image credit
• Letters read on TWiEVO 51
• Time stamps by Jolene. Thanks!

Nels - Universal principled review Vincent - Hostile Planet by National Geographic

Courtney - Nightwish Endless Forms Most Beautiful and Shudder Before The Beautiful

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Nels and Vincent discuss signatures of sex chromosome evolution revealed by assembly of a young vertebrate Y chromosome from 3-spined stickleback fish.

Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello

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• Assembly of a young vertebrate Y chromosome (bioRxiv)
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• Letters read on TWiEVO 50
• Time stamps by Jolene. Thanks!

Nels - Genome from a 5,700-Year-Old Wad of Chewed Gum Vincent - NJ Sea-Level Rise Reports

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Rich joins Nels and Vincent for a debriefing on the 4th Ringberg Symposium on Giant Virus Biology in Tegernsee, Germany.

Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello

Guest: Rich Condit

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• Endless giant virus forms most beautiful (TWiV 575)
• 4th Ringberg Giant Virus Meeting Program (pdf)
• Photographs by Matthias Fischer
• Time stamps by Jolene. Thanks!

Rich - Flightradar24 Nels - Deutsches Museum Munich Vincent - Diversify Microbiology

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Nels and Vincent reveal a new choanoflagellate that forms multicellular cup shaped colonies that respond to light to alternate between feeding and swimming behavior.

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• Microbial accomplices in multicellularity (TWiEVO 11)
• Light regulated collective contractility (Science)
• Image credit
• Letters read on TWiEVO 48
• Time stamps by Jolene. Thanks!

Nels - How to write a great science paper by Cormac McCarthy Vincent - Natural Selection Store

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Nels and Vincent trace the origins of Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains used to make beer, and find that ales and lagers are made with yeasts that were derived from those used to make European grape wine and Asian rice wine.

Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello

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• Origins of beer yeasts (PLoS Biol)
• Chateau Jiahu beer
• Time stamps by Jolene. Thanks!

Nels - Population fluctuations in 10 biggest cities Vincent - 1.7 million year old rhino tooth (original Nature paper)

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Nels and Vincent analyze the genomes of canine transmissible tumors to provide insight into the worldwide spread of the disease from its origin in a single dog 4000-8500 years ago, and its diversity, mutation, and evolution.

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• Evolution and mutation of canine transmissible cancer (Science)
• Clam cancers (TWiEVO 17)
• Sixth modality of infectious disease (PLoS Path)
• Time stamps by Jolene. Thanks!

Nels - Vasa Museum in Stockholm Vincent - Nobel Museum in Stockholm

Irene - @EndlessFormsand #PlantScienceFascinatesMe #plantsday

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At ASM Microbe in San Francisco, Nels and Vincent meet up with Talia Karasov who reveals that in contrast to agriculture, wild plants are colonized by multiple lineages of pathogenic bacteria.

Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello

Guest: Talia Karasov

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• Talia Karasov in the Bergelson lab
• Arabidopsis thaliana and Pseudomonas (Cell Host Micr)
• Time stamps by Jolene. Thanks!

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At ASM Microbe in San Francisco, Nels and Vincent meet up with Paul Turner to talk about evolutionary considerations in using bacteriophages to treat infections with antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello

Guest: Paul Taylor

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• Turner Lab at Yale
• Phage therapy: A renewed approach (Cell Host Microbe)
• Phage treatment of aortic graft (Evol Med Pub Health)
• Time stamps by Jolene. Thanks!

Nels- Science Glass

Vincent- Phage therapy for disseminated Mycobacterial infection

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Dustin Rubinstein joins Nels and Vincent to discuss coevolution of genome architecture and social behavior, and studying social transitions in sponge-dwelling snapping shrimp.

Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello

Guest: Dustin Rubinstein

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• Co-evolution of genome architecture and social behavior (Trend Ecol Evol)
• Social transitions in snapping shrimp (Curr Op Insect Sci)
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Dustin- Genesis: The Deep Origin of Societies 1 by E.O. Wilson, and The Human Swarm by Mark O. Moffett

Nels- For Love of Insects by Thomas Eisner

Vincent- Quacks blamed for Pakistan HIV-1 outbreak

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Nels and Vincent review the contribution of multiple Denisovan lineages to the modern Papuan genome.

Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello

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• Denisovan ancestries in Papuans (Cell)
• Prof Murray Cox
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• Letters read on TWiEVO 42
• Time stamps by Jolene. Thanks!

Nels- Sydney Brenner - What Genomes Can Tell Us About the PastVincent- Scientific Communication in a Post-Truth Society

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