Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Harmit Malik

Vincent is joined by special guest Harmit Malik to discuss his work on the evolution of genetic conflict.

Links for this episode:

• Harmit on YouTube
• Retroviruses and mammalian placentation (PNAS)
• Paleovirology (Curr Opin Virol)
• Evolution among AIM2-like receptors (J Exp Med)
• Poxvirus genomic accordions (Cell)
• Letters read on TWiV 205

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