Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello
Guest: Nitin Phadnis
Nitin joins Nels and Vincent to explain how he identified a gene that is responsible for male inviability in hybrids from a cross between two species of fruit flies.
Links for this episode
- Cell cycle regulation gene causes hybrid inviability in fruit fly (Science)
- Phadnis laboratory
- Phadnis laboratory on Facebook
- Gene for new species discovered (UNews)
- Tardigrade HGT disputed (bioRxiv)
- Photo credit: Lee J. Siegel, University of Utah
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