Comprehensive Virology Volume 13: Structure and Assembly

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xix

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2. Amino Acid Sequences of Plant and Animal Viral Proteins

   • Stephen Oroszlan, Raymond V. Gilden

   Pages 1-35

3. Structure of the RNA of Eukaryotic Viruses

   • H. Fraenkel-Conrat

   Pages 37-67

4. Structure and Function of RNA Bacteriophages

   • Walter Fiers

   Pages 69-204

5. DNA Sequencing of Viral Genomes

   • Gillian M. Air

   Pages 205-292

6. Viral Membranes

   • Richard W. Compans, Hans-Dieter Klenk

   Pages 293-407

7. Adenovirus Structural Proteins

   • Harold S. Ginsberg

   Pages 409-457

8. The Adenovirus-SV40 Hybrid Viruses

   • Cephas T. Patch, Arthur S. Levine, Andrew M. Lewis Jr.

   Pages 459-542

9. Bacteriophage Structure

   • Frederick A. Eiserling

   Pages 543-580

10. Genetic Control of Complex Bacteriophage Assembly

    • William B. Wood, Jonathan King

    Pages 581-633

11. Back Matter

    Pages 635-652

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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, bio­ chemical cytology, and high resolution microscopy and spec­ troscopy, 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 18 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 invalua­ ble 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
• molecular biology
• virology

• 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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