episode 485: Fishing with defective flies
The TWiV posse considers viral insulin-like peptides encoded in fish genomes, and insect antiviral immunity by production of viral DNA from defective genomes of RNA viruses.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Kathy Spindler, and Brianne Barker
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Links for this episode- ASM Microbe 2018
- Insulin-like peptides in Iridovirus genomes (PNAS)
- Dicer-2 dependent generation of cvDNA from defective genomes (Cell Host Micr)
- Carla Saleh on insect antiviral immunity (TWiV 301)
- RNAseIII ancient antiviral RNA platform (TWiV 450)
- cvDNA precursor to EVEs (TWiV 482)
- Image credit: Paul Young
- Letters read on TWiV 485
Kathy - Vegas casinos lost money on physicists
Brianne - Astronaut twin's DNA is not 7% different!
Dickson - Parasitic Diseases lecture videos
Alan - In Season blog by Donna Long
Vincent - Buckyball viruses
Paul - Wine labels (front, back)
Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees.
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