TWiEVO 10: Spicing up peppered moths with a selfish gene - a podcast by Vincent Racaniello
from 2016-08-13T14:17:15
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Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello
Nels and Vincent review experiments showing that the replacement of a pale moth with a black one during the industrial revolution was caused by a transposable element.
Links for this episode
- Last experiment of Michael Majerus (Biol Lett)
- Moth melanism mutation is transposon (Nature)
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- Letters read on TWiEVO 10
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