TWiV 357: Mistletoe on the Tree of Life

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

Guest: Jens Kuhn

Jens joins the TWiVomics to discuss the strengths and weaknesses of viral taxonomy, including its history and evolution, how viruses are ordered, and why T. rex was classified without having a living isolate.

 

Links for this episode

• Jens' previous TWiV (283) 5:15
• International Committee on the Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) 27:50
• ICTV 9th Report 32:55
• Classifying viruses by capsid architecture (Curr Opin Virol) 1:43:00
• Image credit
• Letters read on TWiV 357 10:55, 1:55:40

Timestamps by Jennifer. Thanks!

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Rich - Summer of Science
Kathy - Bill Nye dances The Click
Dickson - The Martian
Jens - How I Killed Pluto, Life in Our Phage World, Why the Seahorse Tail is Square
Vincent - Does the public trust science? (videos, summaries)

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