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Science 24 August 1962:
Vol. 137. no. 3530, pp. 613 - 615
DOI: 10.1126/science.137.3530.613
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Icosahedral Models and Viruses: A Critical Evaluation

Heather Donald Mayor 1 and Joseph L. Melnick 1

1 Department of Virology and Epidemiology, Baylor University College of Medicine, Houston, Texas

The evidence for a 42 capsomere structure for the capsid of the papova viruses and 92 for reovirus and woundtumor viruses is corroborated. Some of the difficulties inherent in comparing large-scale icosahedral models with high-resolution electron micrographs of virus particles displaying cubic symmetry are discussed.

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