Directory of Viruses Resources

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>Flora and Fauna >Monera >Bacteria Flora and Fauna is a group within the phylogenetic tree which classifies living organisms into 6 kingdoms: Animalia, Fungi, Monera, Plantae, Protista, and Viruses. This category is specifically for viruses.

Resources in This Category

• Are Viruses Alive?

  http://serc.carleton.edu/microbelife/yellowstone/viruslive.html
  Educational site that discusses what defines life and whether viruses fit into this definition.

• Bacteriophage

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacteriophage
  Information from Wikipedia on the viruses that infect bacteria, their classification, history, replication and uses.

• Epstein-Barr Virus: Infectious Mononucleosis

  http://bioweb.uwlax.edu/bio203/s2009/weisser_mich
  Research project by Michaela Weisser at the University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse.

• HIV

  http://bioweb.uwlax.edu/bio203/s2008/kinsley_kayl/
  Research project by Kayleen Kinsley on the human immunodeficiency virus, including its classification, nutrition, reproduction, habitat, history and information on the disease it causes.

• Human rhinovirus

  http://bioweb.uwlax.edu/bio203/2010/glodosky_chri/HumanRhinovirus/
  Student project with taxonomy, phylogeny, anatomy, physiology and human significance.

• International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses

  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ICTVdb/Images/
  Taxonomy of viruses, including electron microscopy pictures, and family descriptions.

• Origins of Viruses

  http://www.mcb.uct.ac.za/tutorial/virorig.html#Virus Origins
  Article examining the evidence for how the first viruses may have appeared and how viruses, like other parasites, co-evolved with their hosts.

• Rabies Virus

  http://fcps.edu/islandcreekes/ecology/rabies_virus.htm
  Photographs and information on this virus that can be transmitted in saliva.

• Taxonomy browser (Viruses)

  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?name=Viruses
  The NCBI Taxonomy database allows browsing of the taxonomy tree, which contains a classification of organisms.

• The Big Picture Book of Viruses

  http://www.virology.net/Big_Virology/BVHomePage.html
  Specific information on viral families, genomes, taxonomy, and structure.

• Tospoviruses

  http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/pp134
  Viruses in the genus Tospovirus cause significant worldwide crop losses. Provides information on their biology, transmission, host range, symptoms, distribution and management strategies.

• ViralZone

  http://viralzone.expasy.org/
  Database of viruses. Information for each family includes molecular biology, taxonomic and host details, epidemiology and the UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot protein entries.

• Virus

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virus
  Comprehensive information from Wikipedia on these sub-microscopic infectious agents that are unable to grow or reproduce outside a host cell.

• Virus Databases Online

  http://www.ictvdb.rothamsted.ac.uk/
  A comprehensive index of viruses provided by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses. Also provides a picture gallery, identification tool and software tools.

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