Nov 15 2016 92 mins 25
Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello
Guest: Corrie Moreau
Corrie joins Nels and Vincent to talk about her comparative analysis of the genomes of mutualist ants that nest in plants, and non-symbiotic species.
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Links for this episode
- Moreau Laboratory
- Different rates of evolution in ant-plant mutualisms (Nat Commun)
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