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Published: Jan. 19, 2014, 2:21 p.m.

Hosts:\xa0Vincent Racaniello,\xa0Alan Dove,\xa0Kathy Spindler, and\xa0Ashlee Bennett

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Vincent, Alan, Kathy, and Ashlee discuss fomites in physicians offices, plant virus factories involved in aphid transmission, and clues from the bat genome about flight and immunity.

\nLinks for this episode\n

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• How viruses cause disease\xa0(Coursera)
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• How clean is your iPad\xa0(Which?)
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• Meeting announcement:\xa0From emerging to pandemic viruses
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• CaMV virus factories involved in\xa0aphid transmission\xa0(J Virol)
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• Caulimovirus\xa0(ViralZone)
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• CaMV\xa0responds instantly\xa0to vector (eLIFE)
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• Aphid\xa0acquiring CaMV\xa0(J Virol)
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• Bat genomes, flight, and immunity (Science)
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• Letters read\xa0on TWiV 268
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Kathy\xa0- Jean-Luc Doumont (slides,\xa0communicating science, website,\xa0Scitable)
Alan\xa0- Wireless thermometer
Vincent\xa0-\xa0LORiOLA viral necklaces

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Stephen\xa0-\xa0Fourteen years of US weather\xa0(YouTube)

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