Tag: giant virus

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

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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TWiV 419: The selfless gene

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