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TWiM #74: It Came from the Siberian Permafrost


Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Elio Schaechter, and Michael Schmidt. 

Vincent, Elio, and Michael discuss a huge 30,000 year old virus recovered from Siberia, and nested symbiosis facilitated by horizontal gene transfer from bacteria to insect.

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Posted on March 18, 2014 at 07:35 AM in This Week in Microbiology |

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