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Hosts:\\xa0Vincent Racaniello,\\xa0Alan Dove,\\xa0Rich Condit, and\\xa0Kathy Spindler

Guests:\\xa0Jeremy Luban,\\xa0Aaron Lin, and\\xa0Ted Diehl

Jeremy, Aaron, and Ted join the TWiV team to discuss their work on identifying a single amino acid change in the Ebola virus glycoprotein from\\xa0the West African outbreak that\\xa0increases infectivity in human cells.

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Links for this episode

• Ebola virus glycoprotein with\\xa0increased infectivity\\xa0(Cell)
• Effect in cells of\\xa0Ebola virus mutations\\xa0from West African outbreak (Cell)
• Ebola virus in semen for\\xa0over 500 days\\xa0(Clin Inf Dis)
• Puzzling origin of 2014 Ebola virus outbreak (J Virol)
• Mutant Ebola virus\\xa0may have caused explosive outbreak (Goats and Soda)
• Virus Genomics and Evolution\\xa0website

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