This Week in Virology #96: Making viral DNA

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, and Rich Condit

On episode #96 of the podcast This Week in Virology, Vincent, Dickson, and Rich continue Virology 101 with a discussion of how viruses with DNA genomes replicate their genetic information.

Download TWiV #96 (65 MB .mp3, 90 minutes)

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Links for this episode:

• Figures for this episode (pdf)


• Video of this episode - coming soon


• RNA silencing as a plant immune system (Trends in Genetics)


• Photos of transgenic petunia (PLoS Biology)


• Letters read on TWiV 96

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