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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