Regulation and Genetics: Genetics of Animal Viruses by Walter Eckhart (auth.), Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat, Robert R.

By Walter Eckhart (auth.), Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat, Robert R. Wagner (eds.)

The time turns out ripe for a severe compendum of that phase of the organic universe we name viruses. Virology, as a technology, having handed only in the near past via its descriptive section of naming and numbering, has most likely reached that degree at which fairly few new-truly new-viruses can be came upon. brought on by means of the highbrow probes and strategies of molecular biology, genetics, biochemical cytology, and high-resolution microscopy and spectroscopy, the sphere has skilled a real details explosion. Few critical makes an attempt were made to chronicle those occasions. This finished sequence, as a way to contain a few 6000 pages in a complete of approximately 22 volumes, represents a dedication by way of a wide workforce of energetic investigators to investigate, digest, and expostulate at the nice mass of knowledge in terms of viruses, a lot of that's now amorphous and disjointed, and scattered all through a large literature. during this approach, we are hoping to put the total box in point of view, and to advance an invalua­ ble reference and sourcebook for researchers and scholars in any respect degrees. This sequence is designed as a continuum that may be entered anyplace, yet which additionally offers a logical development of constructing evidence and built-in concepts.

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Hence the mutants isolated and characterized have been shown to be independently isolated type 5 ts mutants. c Range varied from 1/85 for 10- 1 survivors to 7/144 for 2 x 10-' survivors to 3/94 for 10-' survivors. 0% ts. a 30 Chapter 2 proteins have the unusual feature of being soluble in aqueous media while remaining in their native functional forms. The capsid consists of 252 capsomers (Fig. , 1966). At each of the 12 vertices of the icosahedron, the axis of fivefold symmetry, is a penton (Valentine and Pereira, 1965), which consists of a base, the vertex capsomer, and a fiber.

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