TWiV 1281: Sex, herpes, and plankton
Update: 2025-12-21
Description
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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