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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virus - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virus
Comprehensive information from Wikipedia on these sub-microscopic infectious agents that are unable to grow or reproduce outside a host cell. |
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The Influenza Sequence Database - http://www.flu.lanl.gov/
Database of virus information including nucleotide sequences. |
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Virus Databases Online - http://www.ictvdb.rothamsted.ac.uk/
A comprehensive index of viruses provided by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses. Also provides a picture gallery, identification tool and software tools. |
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The Big Picture Book of Viruses - http://www.virology.net/Big_Virology/BVHomePage.html
Specific information on viral families, genomes, taxonomy, and structure. |
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International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ICTVdb/Images/
Taxonomy of viruses, including electron microscopy pictures, and family descriptions. |
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Bacteriophage - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacteriophage
Information from Wikipedia on the viruses that infect bacteria, their classification, history, replication and uses. |
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Taxonomy browser (Viruses) - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?name=Viruses
The NCBI Taxonomy database allows browsing of the taxonomy tree, which contains a classification of organisms. |
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Are Viruses Alive? - http://serc.carleton.edu/microbelife/yellowstone/viruslive.html
Educational site that discusses what defines life and whether viruses fit into this definition. |
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West Nile Virus - http://www.biocarta.com/pathfiles/h_WNVpathway.asp
Provides a graphic model showing the incorporation of this virus into a host cell. |
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Index of Viruses - http://www.ictvdb.rothamsted.ac.uk/Ictv/fr-index.htm
Database of virus names, acronyms, hosts, and nucleic acids. |
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Distemper and Influenza at Mill Hill - http://www.nimr.mrc.ac.uk/millhillessays/2000/influenza.htm
Article by Rick Carver and John Skehel from the archives of the Mill Hill Essays 2000, about the group of viruses called paramyxoviruses. |
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Epstein-Barr Virus: Infectious Mononucleosis - http://bioweb.uwlax.edu/bio203/s2009/weisser_mich
Research project by Michaela Weisser at the University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse. |
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Principles of Virus Architecture - http://web.uct.ac.za/depts/mmi/stannard/virarch.html
Information regarding virus structures, images, and the use of stain to identify them. |
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http://bioweb.uwlax.edu/bio203/s2008/kinsley_kayl/ - http://bioweb.uwlax.edu/bio203/s2008/kinsley_kayl/
Research project by Kayleen Kinsley on the human immunodeficiency virus, including its classification, nutrition, reproduction, habitat, history and information on the disease it causes. |
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Origins of Viruses - http://www.mcb.uct.ac.za/tutorial/virorig.html#Virus%20Origins
Article examining the evidence for how the first viruses may have appeared and how viruses, like other parasites, co-evolved with their hosts. |