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TWiV 1337: The whitefly and the Red Queen
· 1 h 53 min · Episode 1337
Episode TWiV 1337: The whitefly and the Red Queen
TWiV explains research that reveals an an alternative evolutionary path of antiviral signalling in a sea anemone, and how a bacterial symbiont and a plant virus enhance insect fitness by inducing physical defenses against fungal parasites.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit
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• Support science education at MicrobeTV • Positions in Rosenfeld Lab (email) • Springer-Nature retracted two papers by Max Planck, probably with a bot (Science) • Alternative evolutionary path of antiviral signalling in sea anemone (Nat Ecol Evol) • Bacterial symbiont and plant virus protect whitefly against fungal parasites (PNAS) • Letters read on TWiV 1337 • Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!
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Links in the notes 14
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Racaniello
- https://ufrfprofessors.research.ufl.edu/condit-richard/
- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-week-in-virology/id1176779065
- https://www.microbe.tv/contribute
- https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/RosenfeldA@mlhs.org
- https://www.science.org/content/article/why-have-papers-one-history-s-most-famous-physicists-been-retracted
- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-026-03112-3
- https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2534981123?af=R
- https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-1337-letters/
- https://ramseylab.vercel.app/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mercy_of_Gods
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livesuit
- https://biotic.org/research/spudcell/
- https://episodictable.com/start-here/
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