TWiV 485: Fishing with defective flies

The TWiV posse considers viral insulin-like peptides encoded in fish genomes, and insect antiviral immunity by production of viral DNA from defective genomes of RNA viruses.

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

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Links for this episode

• ASM Microbe 2018
• Insulin-like peptides in Iridovirus genomes (PNAS)
• Dicer-2 dependent generation of cvDNA from defective genomes (Cell Host Micr)
• Carla Saleh on insect antiviral immunity (TWiV 301)
• RNAseIII ancient antiviral RNA platform (TWiV 450)
• cvDNA precursor to EVEs (TWiV 482)
• Image credit: Paul Young
• Letters read on TWiV 485

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