TWiV 128: Virologists in the mist

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Dickson Despommier, and Welkin Johnson

Vincent, Alan, Dickson and Welkin review how a virus regulates the severity of mucocutaneous leishmaniasis, virophage control of antarctic algal host-virus dynamics, and human metapneumovirus infection in gorillas.

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Links for this episode:

• Leishmania RNA virus controls severity of mucocutaneous leishmaniasis (Science)
• Leishmaniavirus at ViralZone
• Listen to TWiP #14 on Leishmania
• Virophages may control algal virus-host dynamics (PNAS)
• Human metapneumovirus infection of gorillas (EID)
• Reverse zoonoses (virology blog)
• Copy-number variation and co-evolution of viral an primate genomes (PLoS Genetics)
• NIH Study Section rosters
• TWiV on Facebook
• Letters read on TWiV 128

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Welkin – Walter Reed Collection, University of Virginia
Dickson – Bacteria-phage antagonistic coevolution in soil (Science)
Alan – The Artful Amoeba
Vincent – Potential bacteriophage applications (Microbe)

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