TWiV 451: Expectorate the unexpected
An episode of the This Week in Virology podcast, hosted by Vincent Racaniello, titled "TWiV 451: Expectorate the unexpected" was published on July 23, 2017 and runs 104 minutes.
July 23, 2017 ·104m · This Week in Virology
Episode Description
The TWiV scientists reveal that mosquitoes transmit different West Nile virus populations with each blood meal, only to have the diversity purged in a bird host.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler
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Links for this episode
- Driving past a milestone (TWiP 100)
- Debug Fresno (Verily blog)
- What could possibly go wrong? (TWiV 388)
- Chestnut blight (ProMedMail)
- Hypovirus molecular biology (Adv Virus Res)
- Mosquitoes transmit unique WNV populations (Cell Rep)
- Teaching science using pseudoscience
- Image credit
- Letters read on TWiV 451
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Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees.
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