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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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)
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Letters read on TWiV 441

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TWiV 441: Don't ChrY for me influenza