TWiV 362: Gotta catch 'em all

This Week in Virology

Nov 08, 2015•1 hr 53 min

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Episode description

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

With their usual verve, the virus virtuosos illuminate a new method to identify all the viral nucleic acids in a sample, and regulation of viral gene expression by codon usage.

Links for this episode

Virome capture sequencing (mBio) 15:40
Codon usage regulates viral gene expression (PNAS) 40:00
Harold S. Ginsberg (Wikipedia) 7:15
Letters read on TWiV 362 6:50, 1:03:20

This episode is sponsored by ASM Education: ASM MOOC 5:45

Timestamps by Jennifer. Thanks!

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