The TWiV posse considers viral insulin-like peptides encoded in fish genomes, and insect antiviral immunity by production of viral DNA from defective genomes of RNA viruses.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Kathy Spindler, and Brianne Barker
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Links for this episode
- ASM Microbe 2018
- Insulin-like peptides in Iridovirus genomes (PNAS)
- Dicer-2 dependent generation of cvDNA from defective genomes (Cell Host Micr)
- Carla Saleh on insect antiviral immunity (TWiV 301)
- RNAseIII ancient antiviral RNA platform (TWiV 450)
- cvDNA precursor to EVEs (TWiV 482)
- Image credit: Paul Young
- Letters read on TWiV 485
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