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Spontaneous Degradation of Reovirus Capsid into Subunits

Department of Bacteriology, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104

ABSTRACT

When a plaque-purified strain of reovirus type 3 (Dearing strain) degraded during storage, electron micrographs of the degraded virion were made which clearly demonstrated the substructural components of the outer capsid.