TWiV 405: All the world's a phage
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Kathy Spindler
The TWiXers discuss a study on vertical transmission of Zika virus by Aedes mosquitoes, and uncovering Earth's virome by mining existing metagenomic sequence data.
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Links for this episode- Roger Tsien, 64 (UC San Diego Health)
- CDC running out of Zika money (NYTimes)
- Zika virus in Miami mosquitoes (NYTimes)
- No Zika virus in Rio Olympics (NYTimes)
- Vertical transmission of Zika virus in Aedes aegypti (AJTMH)
- Uncovering Earth's virome (Nature)
- Image credit (Global water volume)
- Letters read on TWiV 405
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Weekly Science PicksAlan - The Vizzies
Dickson - NASA Spinoff
Kathy - Maps.me
Vincent - Zika: The Emerging Epidemic by Donald McNeil
Tarwin - Darwin's Radio by Greg Bear (paper or Kindle)
Bodham - The start of scientific publishing, 1665
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