Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

With their usual verve, the virus virtuosos illuminate a new method to identify all the viral nucleic acids in a sample, and regulation of viral gene expression by codon usage.

Links for this episode

• Virome capture sequencing (mBio) 15:40
• Codon usage regulates viral gene expression (PNAS) 40:00
• Harold S. Ginsberg (Wikipedia) 7:15
• Letters read on TWiV 362 6:50, 1:03:20

This episode is sponsored by ASM Education: ASM MOOC 5:45

Timestamps by Jennifer. Thanks!

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