TWiEVO 10: Spicing up peppered moths with a selfish gene

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)
• Image credit
• Letters read on TWiEVO 10

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Nels - Is Pokémon Go good for science? (one, two, three) Vincent - Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli

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