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

The lovely TWiV team explore evolution of our fecal virome, and the antiviral RNA interference response in the nematode C. elegans.

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Links for this episode

• ASM Clinical Virology Symposium
• Evolution of the human fecal virome (PNAS)
• Antiviral RNAi response in C. elegans (Curr Biol)
• Orsay virus (TWiV 123)
• Broad VSV host range (J Comp Neurol)
• Image credit
• Letters read on TWiV 433

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