TWiV 405: All the world's a phage

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

The TWiXers discuss a study on vertical transmission of Zika virus by Aedes mosquitoes, and uncovering Earth's virome by mining existing metagenomic sequence data.

 

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Links for this episode

• Roger Tsien, 64 (UC San Diego Health)
• CDC running out of Zika money (NYTimes)
• Zika virus in Miami mosquitoes (NYTimes)
• No Zika virus in Rio Olympics (NYTimes)
• Vertical transmission of Zika virus in Aedes aegypti (AJTMH)
• Uncovering Earth's virome (Nature)
• Image credit (Global water volume)
• Letters read on TWiV 405

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