Change the world by duplicating yourself

Nels and Vincent explore a direct experimental test of Ohno’s Hypothesis, which states that gene duplication can help genes tolerate new mutations and thus facilitates the evolution of new phenotypes.

Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello

Become a patron of TWiEVO

Links for this episode

• Join the MicrobeTV Discord server
• Direct test of Ohno’s Hypothesis (eLive)
• Timestamps by Jolene

Science Picks

Nels – Experimental Evolution and the Nature of Biodiversity Vincent – Is science’s dominant funding model broken?

Music on TWiEVO is performed by Trampled by Turtles Send your evolution questions and comments to twievo@microbe.tv