Atlas of Virus Diagrams / Edition 1

by Hans-Wolfgang Ackermann, Laurent Berthiaume

Overview

Authored by electron microscopists and leading members of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV), the Atlas of Virus Diagrams includes chapters on virus classification. The diagrams, selected for content and historic and aesthetic value, illustrate vertebrate, invertebrate, and plant bacterial viruses taken from English, French, and German language virological literature. The book presents this information in three sections:

Overviews, including vertebrate and plant viruses

Viruses with cubic and helical symmetry

Viruses with binary symmetry (tailed bacteriophages).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780849324574
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/13/1995
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	158
Product dimensions:	8.25(w) x 11.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Ackermann, Hans-Wolfgang; Berthiaume, Laurent

Table of Contents

Introduction
A Summary of Virus Classification
Overviews
Viruses with Cubic and Helical Symmetry
Viruses with Binary Symmetry
Glossary and Abbreviations
References
Index

Editorial Reviews

An overview and summary of virus classifications is followed by a lengthy chapter listing some 35 viruses with cubic or helical symmetry, followed by a chapter presenting a smaller number of viruses with binary symmetry. All told, there are some 270 b&w drawings of complete viruses or virus parts, with emphasis placed on the morphological aspects of comparative virology. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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