TWiEVO 17: The curious cases of clam cancers

Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello

Guest: Stephen Goff

Nels joins Vincent in New York City to speak with Stephen Goff about transmissible clam cancers and the silencing of integrated retroviral genomes.

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• A sixth modality of infectious disease (PLoS Path)
• Horizontal transmission of clam cancer (Cell)
• Transmissible bivalve cancers (Nature)
• Retrovirus transcriptional silencing (J Virol)
• Histones on retroviral DNA (Cell Host Micr)
• Image credit

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