TWiEVO 84: Decoding our defenses to the Black Death
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Show Notes
Nels and Vincent review the use of ancient DNA to identify loci that may have been under selection during the Black Death by studying populations before, during, and after the pandemic.
Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello
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Links for this episode- Evolution of immune genes associated with Black Death (Nature)
- ERAP2 and respiratory disease (medRxiv)
- Time stamps by Jolene. Thanks!
Nels – Interview with Paul Turner in Current Biology and Map of the World if you are a fish Vincent – Smallpox and its eradication
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