http://microtwjc.wordpress.com/2012/08/22/microtwjc-week-9-paper-and-discussion-points/ The website of the Microbiology Twitter Journal Club Wed, 08 May 2013 11:31:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://microtwjc.wordpress.com/2012/08/22/microtwjc-week-9-paper-and-discussion-points/#comment-425 Mon, 03 Sep 2012 19:20:16 +0000 http://microtwjc.wordpress.com/?p=177#comment-425 The transcript can now be found here: http://storify.com/_zoonotica_/microtwjc-week-9

]]> http://microtwjc.wordpress.com/2012/08/22/microtwjc-week-9-paper-and-discussion-points/#comment-401 Tue, 28 Aug 2012 08:01:10 +0000 http://microtwjc.wordpress.com/?p=177#comment-401 [...] Questions: Why look for viruses? What about bacteria or parasites? Why bats? What other kinds of species would you look at? Or are bats special? Are their sample sizes enough to capture true diversity of bats/rodents? Why did they specifically look for paramyxoviruses? Why not utilize deep sequencing approaches? What does having a viral sequence tell us? Of most of these viruses they never actually found the virus, only sequences. What problems are associated with this? Does their data really back up the title of the paper? To show that a species is the reservoir host, what kind of evidence do you need? What’s the deal their phylogenetic methods? What would you do next with this data? Should we kill all the bats? (function() { var po = document.createElement("script"); po.type = "text/javascript"; po.async = true; po.src = "https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"; var s = document.getElementsByTagName("script")[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(po, s); })(); Share this:EmailFacebookTwitter [...]

]]> http://microtwjc.wordpress.com/2012/08/22/microtwjc-week-9-paper-and-discussion-points/#comment-384 Wed, 22 Aug 2012 09:25:03 +0000 http://microtwjc.wordpress.com/?p=177#comment-384 What a perfect way to end the bank holiday weekend! Looking forward to this one, and I’m very fond of the bat picture! Perks the place up!

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