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TWiV 49: Viral genomes

This Week in Virology / By Vincent Racaniello

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dick Despommier On episode 49 of the podcast ‘This Week in Virology”, Vincent and Dick continue Virology 101 with a discussion of the seven different types of viral genomes, and how to use the pathway to mRNA to understand viral replication. [powerpress url=”http://traffic.libsyn.com/twiv/TWiV049.mp3″] Click the arrow above to play, or right-click …

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How viruses are classified

19 Comments / Basic virology, Information / By Vincent Racaniello

For the first 60 years of virus discovery, there was no system for classifying viruses. Consequently viruses were named haphazardly, a practice that continues today. Vertebrate viruses may be named according to the associated diseases (poliovirus, rabies), the type of disease caused (murine leukemia virus), or the sites in the body affected or from which …

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