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Science 3 December 1965:
Vol. 150. no. 3701, pp. 1303 - 1305
DOI: 10.1126/science.150.3701.1303
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Rotational Symmetry in Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus and Models

S. S. Breese Jr. 1, R. Trautman 1, and H. L. Bachrach 1

1 Plum Island Animal Disease Laboratory, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Greenport, New York 11944

With small, animal viruses for which electron-microscope images show little penetration by negative stain, the rotation technique for structure determination is useful. Foot-and-mouth disease virus resembles a 32-unit model when rotational images of virus and models simulating virus in negative stain are compared.

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