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Oct 21, 2009

Over at the Evilutionary Biologist, John Dennehy blogs about a video on virus evolution from Santiago Elena, a professor with the Instituto de Biologia Molecular y Celular de Plantas and the Santa Fe Institute. According to the post, "The movie shows how Santiago Elena does the evolutionary experiment and we see that after 30 rounds of experimental evolution the virus is indeed adapted to the new host plant!" You can go straight to the video here.

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