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TWiV 474: Call me fish meal

  • December 31, 2017
  • Tagged as: Bodo saltans virus, concatenated DNA, evolution, genome, giant virus, kinetoplastic, microzooplankton, mimivirus, tRNA, viral, virology, virus, viruses

The TWiVanguardians take on Bodo saltans virus, a leviathan which infects an abundant flagellated eukaryote in Earth’s waters.

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TWiV 440: I hardly noumeavirus

  • May 7, 2017
  • Tagged as: bootstrap, evolution, giant virus, marseillevirus, mimivirus, mRNA synthesis, Noumeavirus, nucleus, polyA, transcription, Vaccines, viral, virology, virus, viruses
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No problem not being nice to Dickson in this episode, because he’s absent for a discussion of a new giant virus that replicates in the cytoplasm yet transiently accesses the nucleus to bootstrap infection.

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TWiV 437: Kathy’s new spindle virus

  • April 16, 2017
  • Tagged as: archaea, caudovirales, crispr, fourth domain of life, giant virus, igneous oceanic crust, Klosneuvirus, oceanic basement, translation, viral, virology, virus, viruses
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The TWiVsters reveal new giant viruses that argue against a fourth domain of life, and discovery of viruses in the oceanic basement.

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TWiV 419: The selfless gene

  • December 11, 2016
  • Tagged as: altruism, cafeteria roenbergensis, CroV, giant virus, lysogen, mavirus, mimivirus, prophage, protozoan, viral, virology, virophage, virus, viruses
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The TWiVrific gang reveal how integration of a virophage into the nuclear genome of a marine protozoan enhances host survival after infection with a giant virus.

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TWiV 354: The cat in the HAART

  • September 13, 2015
  • Tagged as: cat, feline immunodeficiency virus, FIV, gain of function, giant virus, influenza, kawaoka, Mollivirus, permafrost, Siberia, Vaccine, viral, virology, virus

The esteemed doctors of TWiV review a new giant virus recovered from the Siberian permafrost, why influenza virus gain of function experiments are valuable, and feline immunodeficiency virus.

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TWiV 125: TWiV infects FiB

  • March 20, 2011
  • Tagged as: cafeteria virus, contamination, futures in biotech, giant virus, marc pelletier, mariner, retrovirus, sputnik, transposon, twit, viral, virology, virophage, virus

This Week in Virology and Futures in Biotech join together in a science mashup to talk about a virophage at the origin of DNA transposons, and unintended spread of a recombinant retrovirus.

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