TWiV 1281: Sex, herpes, and plankton
21 December 2025

TWiV 1281: Sex, herpes, and plankton

This Week in Virology

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Vincent travels to Tegernsee, Germany for the Sixth Ringberg Symposium on Giant Viruses, where he talks with John Archibald, Susana Coelho, and Tom Delmont about their work on – you guessed it – giant viruses.

Host: Vincent Racaniello

Guests: John Archibald, Susana Coelho, and Tom Delmont

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Links for this episode
    Transposable elements shaping Ectocarpus genome (Genome Biol) Mirusviruses link herpesviruses to giant viruses (Nature) Mirusviruses predicted to reproduce in nuclei (Nat Micro) Persistent mirusvirus infection in the marine protist Aurantiochytrium (Nat Com) Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!

Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees

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