TWiV 405: All the world's a phage
Hosts:\xa0Vincent Racaniello,\xa0Dickson Despommier,\xa0Alan Dove, and\xa0Kathy Spindler
The TWiXers discuss\xa0a study on vertical transmission of Zika virus by\xa0Aedes\xa0mosquitoes, and uncovering Earth's virome by mining existing metagenomic sequence data.
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Links for this episode- Roger Tsien, 64\xa0(UC San Diego Health)
- CDC running out\xa0of\xa0Zika money\xa0(NYTimes)
- Zika virus in\xa0Miami mosquitoes\xa0(NYTimes)
- No Zika virus in\xa0Rio Olympics\xa0(NYTimes)
- Vertical transmission\xa0of Zika virus in\xa0Aedes aegypti\xa0(AJTMH)
- Uncovering\xa0Earth's virome\xa0(Nature)
- Image credit\xa0(Global water volume)
- Letters read\xa0on TWiV 405
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Weekly Science PicksAlan\xa0-\xa0The Vizzies
Dickson -\xa0NASA Spinoff
Kathy\xa0- \xa0Maps.me
Vincent\xa0-\xa0Zika: The Emerging Epidemic\xa0by\xa0Donald McNeil
Tarwin\xa0-\xa0Darwin's Radio\xa0by Greg Bear (paper\xa0or\xa0Kindle)
Bodham\xa0-\xa0The start of scientific publishing, 1665
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