Comprehensive Virology 10

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Translation of Animal Virus mRNAs in Vitro

   • A. J. Shatkin, A. K. Banerjee, G. W. Both

   Pages 1-71

3. Defective Interfering Animal Viruses

   • Alice S. Huang, David Baltimore

   Pages 73-116

4. Virion Polymerases

   • David H. L. Bishop

   Pages 117-278

5. Animal Virus-Host Genome Interactions

   • Walter Doerfler

   Pages 279-399

6. Cell Transformation by RNA Tumor Viruses

   • Hidesaburo Hanafusa

   Pages 401-483

7. Back Matter

   Pages 485-496

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The time seems ripe for a critical compendium of that segment of the biological universe we call viruses. Virology, as a science, having passed only recently through its descriptive phase of naming and num­ bering, has probably reached that stage at which relatively few new­ truly new-viruses will be discovered. Triggered by the intellectual probes and techniques of molecular biology, genetics, biochemical cytology, and high-resolution microscopy and spectroscopy, the field has experienced a genuine information explosion. Few serious attempts have been made to chronicle these events. This comprehensive series, which will comprise some 6000 pages in a total of about 22 volumes, represents a commitment by a large group of active investigators to analyze, digest, and expostulate on the great mass of data relating to viruses, much of which is now amorphous and disjointed, and scattered throughout a wide literature. In this way, we hope to place the entire field in perspective, and to develop an invaluable reference and sourcebook for researchers and students at all levels. This series is designed as a continuum that can be entered anywhere, but which also provides a logical progression of developing facts and integrated concepts.

• genetics
• microscopy
• molecular biology
• virology
• gene expression

• Department of Molecular Biology and Virus Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, USA

  Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat

• Department of Microbiology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA

  Robert R. Wagner

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