TWiV 301: Marine viruses and insect defense

Host: Vincent Racaniello Guests: Carla Saleh and Curtis Suttle At the International Congress of Virology in Montreal, Vincent speaks with Carla and Curtis about their work on RNA interference and antiviral defense in fruit flies, and viruses in the sea, the greatest biodiversity on Earth. Links for this episode Greatest biodiversity on Earth (Genome) Cafeteria roenbergensis virus (PNAS) Marine viruses (Nat Rev Micro) RNAi and reverse transcription is antiviral in flies (Nat Imm) Friendly persistent infections (Curr Op Micro) RNAi and antiviral defense in Drosophila (Dev Comp Imm) Video of this episode - view at YouTube Send your virology questions and comments (email or mp3 file) to [email protected]