id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-022196-1tionxun FENNER, FRANK The Nature and Classification of Animal Viruses 2013-11-17 .txt text/plain 9588 406 46 With most isometric particles and in all complex virions, the capsid encloses another protein structure containing the viral genome, called the core. All animal viruses with tubular nucleocapsids are enveloped, and in these the lipid layer from which glycoprotein peplomers project is probably applied to a protein shell (the membrane protein; see Fig. 1 -1), which may be relatively rigid, as in Rhabdovirus, or readily distorted (as in the myxoviruses) so that in negatively stained electron micrographs the virions appear to be pleomorphic. The RNA viruses that have the largest (single-stranded) genomes, those of the Leukovirus genus, also have a highly complex structure with an envelope enclosing an icosahedral capsid that, in turn, surrounds a tubular nucleocapsid. The conventional physicochemical criteria [(a) nucleic acid: type, strandedness, fragmentation, and molecular weight; (b) virion: shape, size, and symmetry] are suitable for classification at this level of family/genus, perhaps assisted by the serological cross-reactivity of "group" antigens where these have been recognized. ./cache/cord-022196-1tionxun.txt ./txt/cord-022196-1tionxun.txt