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The virions are bullet-shaped, 130–300 nm long, and 70 nm wide with a lipoprotein envelope containing peplomeres that cover an elongated nucleocapsid with helical symmetry. The virion contains five major proteins and an enzyme, the RNA-dependent RNA polymerase. The RNA genome is linear and single-stranded, with a molecular weight of 3.5–4.6 × 106.
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Becker, Y., Hadar, J. (1983). Single-Stranded RNA Minus Viruses with an Intact Genome: Rhabdoviruses. In: Hadar, J. (eds) Molecular Virology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3906-9_13
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