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Ultrastructural studies of partially solubilized polyhedral inclusion bodies of a Baculovirus infectingSpodoptera littoralis (Boisduval)

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Polyhedra were solubilized under mild alkaline conditions and their structure during solubilization was studied by transmission and scanning electron microscopy. Some new structural features such as the extent of virion-packing in a polyhedral body and the cavities remaining in polyhedral bodies following the release of the occluded particles are demonstrated. Some other, previously reported features, such as the presence of a polyhedral “membrane” and the crystalline array of the soluble polyhedral protein are accentuated at the various stages of solubilization.

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  1. Virus Laboratory, Faculty of Agriculture, Rehovot, Israel

    I. Vogel, H. Bud & I. Sela

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Vogel, I., Bud, H. & Sela, I. Ultrastructural studies of partially solubilized polyhedral inclusion bodies of a Baculovirus infectingSpodoptera littoralis (Boisduval). Archives of Virology 66, 371–376 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01320634

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