The TWiV Masters discuss serologic evidence of Ebolavirus infection in a population with no outbreaks, and the set of endogenous viral elements in the mosquito genome.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Kathy Spindler, and Brianne Barker
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- USA Science and Engineering Festival
- Ebolavirus infection without an outbreak (J Inf Dis)
- A. aegypti EVEome (Curr Biol)
- One Loop to Rule Them All (Trends Biochem Sci)
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Hi!
Regarding viral piRNAs in other animals, this pre-print of ours might be of some interest: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/07/21/166488