The Beacons of Viral Education (aka the TWiVoners) reveal a cost of being a male mouse - the Y chromosome regulates their susceptibility to influenza virus infection.

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

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Links for this episode

• ASM Grant Writing Online Course
• Giant viruses not from fourth domain of life (Virology)
• Nuclear envelope disruption during parvovirus infection (J Virol)
• Nuclear deformation during SV40 infection (Nucleus)
• Y chromosome regulates mouse susceptibility to influenza virus (PNAS)
• Consomic strains (Mamm Genome)
• Giants among viruses (TWiV 261)
• Image credit
• Letters read on TWiV 441

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Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees.

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