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Genetics of Animal Viruses

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Handbuch der Virusforschung

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Genetics is concerned with the manner in which the characteristics of an organism are transmitted to its descendants. In view of the near universality of sexual reproduction in organisms of human interest, it has come by convention to be interested primarily in the way in which differences between individuals of the same species can be analysed by controlled breeding experiments. An elaborate structure has now been erected in which a series of genetic conventions, gene, allele, linkage group, cross-over values etc. have been correlated in outline, in many instances in detail, with cytological appearances in germ and somatic cells. There is general agreement that desoxyribosenucleic acid (DNA) is an essential part of the nuclear mechanism of inheritance. Largely as a result of the general acceptance of the Watson-Crick formulation of the structure of DNA, it is widely held that the physical basis of genetic “codes” is the arrangements of pairs of bases in the essential DNA molecules of the chromosomes.

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Burnet, F.M. (1958). Genetics of Animal Viruses. In: Hallauer, C., Meyer, K.F. (eds) Handbuch der Virusforschung. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-7885-0_1

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