• 318: How To Pick a Winner

  • Sep 27 2024
  • Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
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318: How To Pick a Winner

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  • TWiM explains how bacterial community structure can be used to predict athletic performance in racehorses, and the idea that a tiny fraction of all species forms most of Nature.

    Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Petra Levin and Mark O. Martin.

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    • Microbiome picks a winner (Sci Rep)
    • Picking a Winner by Reading the Form
    • Hen’s Teeth and Horse’s Toes by Stephen Jay Gould
    • How much does it cost to breed a horse?
    • Date of birth and purchase price as foals or yearlings and race performance
    • Rarity as a sticky state (PNAS)
    • How many species on Earth? (PLoS Biol)
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