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TWiV 1281: Sex, herpes, and plankton

· 1 h 23 min · Episode 1281

Episode TWiV 1281: Sex, herpes, and plankton

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Vincent travels to Tegernsee, Germany for the Sixth Ringberg Symposium on Giant Viruses, where he talks with John Archibald, Susana Coelho, and Tom Delmont about their work on – you guessed it – giant viruses.

Host: Vincent Racaniello

Guests: John Archibald, Susana Coelho, and Tom Delmont

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Links for this episode

• Transposable elements shaping Ectocarpus genome (Genome Biol) • Mirusviruses link herpesviruses to giant viruses (Nature) • Mirusviruses predicted to reproduce in nuclei (Nat Micro) • Persistent mirusvirus infection in the marine protist Aurantiochytrium (Nat Com) • Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!

Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees

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