Episode Summary


A TWiV trio reveals the 100 million-year-old history of bornavirus infections hidden as EVEs in vertebrate genomes, and identification of novel bat coronaviruses that provide evolutionary insight into the origins of SARS-CoV-2.

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Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees.