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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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English
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102 episodes
since March 21, 2018
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Nels and Vincent explain a study showing unique site-specific and shared habitat-level adaptation in a classic system of repeated evolution, stickleback fish.
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Nels and Vincent discuss the finding that balanced polymorphism in a floral transcription factor underlies the ancient rhythm of daily sex alternation in avocado.
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Nels and Vincent discuss a chemically defined synthetic cell capable of growth and replication.
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Nels and Vincent discuss molecular mimicry of a pathogen virulence target by a plant immune receptor.
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TWiEVO 126: Beyond Inheritance with Roxanne Khamsi June 1, 2026 Science journalist Roxanne Khamsi joins Nels and Vincent discuss her first book, Beyond Inheritance, which explores how DNA continuously mutates throughout our lives, challenging the idea that our genetic destiny is fixed at birth.
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Nels and Vincent discuss the development of a comprehensive transcriptomic atlas of early embryogenesis from 61 animal species to understand the control of gene expression transitions from maternally deposited products to newly transcribed zygotic RNA.
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Nels and Vincent discuss the discovery of a short RNA with the ability to catalyze its own synthesis.
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Nels and Vincent explain how stinkbug females smear fungus on their eggs to protect them from wasp parasitism.
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Nels and Vincent explain how selfishness evolved multiple times from an essential tRNA synthetase gene in a nematode.
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Nels and Vincent examines the use of AI and genome language models to design novel derivatives of bacteriophage phiX174.
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