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The object of this chapter is to provide a brief overview of the Baculoviridae. This book is a practical guide to the baculovirus expression system and it is inappropriate to attempt a comprehensive review of all aspects of these viruses. Here, we will describe those topics which are important to an understanding of the expression system. Other published articles provide detailed accounts of the use of baculoviruses as insecticides (Entwistle and Evans, 1985; Podgwaite, 1985; Huber, 1986), summaries of their biology (Mazzone, 1985; Granados and Williams, 1986; Kelly, 1987; Volkman and Keddie, 1990) and reviews of their molecular biology (Blissard and Rohrmann, 1990) and their use as expression vectors (Luckow and Summers, 1988a; Miller, 1988; Maeda, 1989a; Atkinson et al., 1990a; Bishop and Possee, 1990). A description of the use of baculoviruses as expression vectors will be given in Chapter 2.
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King, L.A., Possee, R.D. (1992). The baculoviruses. In: The Baculovirus Expression System. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2374-7_1
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