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TWiEVO 59: The hypothesis giving tree

  • August 28, 2020
  • Tagged as: amoeba, COVID-19, evolution, giant virus, mutation, natural selection, ORFan, pandemic, SARS-CoV-2

Nels and Vincent answer listener questions and discuss a newly discovered virus of amoeba with a nearly complete ORFan genome: none of the proteins encoded in the viral genome look like any other proteins.

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TWiEVO 49: A giant podcast on giant viruses

  • November 29, 2019
  • Tagged as: ecology, evolution, giant virus, horizontal gene transfer, natural selection, NCLDV, Nucleocytoplasmic large DNA containing viruses, phycodnavirus, Ringberg, viral, virology, virophage, virus, viruses

Rich joins Nels and Vincent for a debriefing on the 4th Ringberg Symposium on Giant Virus Biology in Tegernsee, Germany.

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