Bacteriophages are an attractive tool for application in the therapy of bacterial infections, for
biological control of bacterial contamination of foodstuffs in the alimentary industry, in plant …

Bacteriophages are classified into one order and 13 families. Over 5100 phages have been
examined in the electron microscope since 1959. At least 4950 phages (96%) are tailed …

Rotavirus assembly is a complex process that involves the stepwise acquisition of protein
layers in distinct intracellular locations to form the fully assembled particle. Understanding …

The structure of the core particle of bluetongue virus has been determined by X-ray
crystallography at a resolution approaching 3.5 Å. This transcriptionally active compartment …

Viruses are cellular parasites. The linkage between viral and host functions makes the study
of a viral life cycle an important key to cellular functions. A deeper understanding of many …

Double-stranded RNA virions are transcriptionally competent icosahedral particles that must
translocate across a lipid bilayer to function within the cytoplasm of the target cell …

The reovirus core is an assembly with a relative molecular mass of 52 million that
synthesizes, modifies and exports viral messenger RNA. Analysis of its structure by X-ray …

The bacteriophage phi 6 is a virus that belongs to a different Baltimore group than SARS-
CoV-2 (group III instead of IV). However, it has a round-like shape and a lipid envelope like …

Two double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) viruses, two apparently naked single-stranded RNA
(ssRNA) replicons, five retroviruses and, most recently, two putative prions have been found …

The practice of classifying organisms into hierarchical groups originated with Aristotle and
was codified into nearly immutable biological law by Linnaeus. The heart of taxonomy is the …