The TWiV posse considers viral insulin-like peptides encoded in fish genomes, and insect antiviral immunity by production of viral DNA from defective genomes of RNA viruses.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Kathy Spindler, and Brianne Barker

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ASM Microbe 2018
Insulin-like peptides in Iridovirus genomes (PNAS)
Dicer-2 dependent generation of cvDNA from defective genomes (Cell Host Micr)
Carla Saleh on insect antiviral immunity (TWiV 301)
RNAseIII ancient antiviral RNA platform (TWiV 450)
cvDNA precursor to EVEs (TWiV 482)
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TWiV 485: Fishing with defective flies