DiscoverThis Week in EvolutionTWiEVO 94: A bacteria, a phage, and a selfish element walk into a cryptomonad
TWiEVO 94: A bacteria, a phage, and a selfish element walk into a cryptomonad

TWiEVO 94: A bacteria, a phage, and a selfish element walk into a cryptomonad

Update: 2023-09-29
Share

Description

Nels and Vincent take apart an amazing symbiosis consisting of two bacteria, one bacteriophage, and seven different genomes all within a single-celled alga.

Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello

Subscribe (free): Apple PodcastsGoogle PodcastsRSSemail

Become a patron of TWiEVO

Links for this episode

•Join the MicrobeTV Discord server
•A single crowded cryptomonad cell (Curr Biol)
Letters read on TWiEVO 94

Science Picks

Nels – What happened at NIH during the last government shutdown
Vincent – Geneticist J. Craig Venter: ‘I consider retirement tantamount to death’

Music on TWiEVO is performed by Trampled by Turtles

Send your evolution questions and comments to twievo@microbe.tv

Comments 
00:00
00:00
x

0.5x

0.8x

1.0x

1.25x

1.5x

2.0x

3.0x

Sleep Timer

Off

End of Episode

5 Minutes

10 Minutes

15 Minutes

30 Minutes

45 Minutes

60 Minutes

120 Minutes

TWiEVO 94: A bacteria, a phage, and a selfish element walk into a cryptomonad

TWiEVO 94: A bacteria, a phage, and a selfish element walk into a cryptomonad

Vincent Racaniello, Nels Elde