Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Kathy Spindler, and Ashlee Bennett

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.

Links for this episode

• How viruses cause disease (Coursera)
• How clean is your iPad (Which?)
• Meeting announcement: From emerging to pandemic viruses
• CaMV virus factories involved in aphid transmission (J Virol)
• Caulimovirus (ViralZone)
• CaMV responds instantly to vector (eLIFE)
• Aphid acquiring CaMV (J Virol)
• Bat genomes, flight, and immunity (Science)
• Letters read on TWiV 268

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