This Week in Evolution

TWiEVO 3: Recombination is for the birds


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

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