TWiV 275: Virocentricity with Eugene Koonin

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Rich Condit

Guest: Eugene Koonin

Vincent and Rich meet up with Eugene Koonin to talk about the central role of viruses in the evolution of all life.

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Links for this episode

• Virocentric view of evolution (Curr Op Virol)
• Proposed order Megavirales (Arch Virol)
• Pithovirus (PNAS)
• Selfish virus-like elements (Virol J)
• Pandoraviruses are derived Phycodnaviruses (Biol Direct)
• Video of this episode – view above or at YouTube

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