TWiV 275: Virocentricity with Eugene Koonin
Mar 09, 2014•2 hr 10 min
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Episode description
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Rich Condit
Guest: Eugene Koonin
Vincent and Rich meet up with Eugene Koonin to talk about the central role of viruses in the evolution of all life.
Links for this episode- Virocentric view of evolution (Curr Op Virol)
- Proposed order Megavirales (Arch Virol)
- Pithovirus (PNAS)
- Selfish virus-like elements (Virol J)
- Pandoraviruses are derived Phycodnaviruses (Biol Direct)
- Video of this episode - view below at YouTube
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