No problem being nice to Dickson in this episode, because he's absent for a discussion of a new giant virus that replicates in the cytoplasm yet transiently accesses the nucleus to bootstrap infection.

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

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Links for this episode

• ASM Microbe
• Noumeavirus cytoplasmic replication depends on transient nuclear access (Nat Commun)
• Giants among viruses (TWiV 261)
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• Letters read on TWiV 440

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