Comprehensive Virology Volume 13: Structure and Assembly, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1979 Primary, Secondary, Tertiary, and Quaternary Structures Comprehensive Virology Series

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.

1 Amino Acid Sequences of Plant and Animal Viral Proteins.- 2 Structure of the RNA of Eukaryotic Viruses.- 3 Structure and Function of RNA Bacteriophages.- 4 DNA Sequencing of Viral Genomes.- 5 Viral Membranes.- 6 Adenovirus Structural Proteins.- 7 The Adenovirus-SV40 Hybrid Viruses.- 8 Bacteriophage Structure.- 9 Genetic Control of Complex Bacteriophage Assembly.