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The Action of Radiation on Viruses

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Molecular Radiation Biology

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Viruses are biological objects which have no metabolism of their own and can replicate only with the aid of the genetic and metabolic systems of a host cell, i. e. they are “parasites at the molecular level”. If the host cell is a bacterium they are referred to as bacteriophages, or phages. Since the effects of radiation have been investigated more thoroughly in bacterial viruses than in other systems, a large proportion of the experimental material discussed in this chapter is derived from investigations on bacteriophages.

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Dertinger, H., Jung, H. (1970). The Action of Radiation on Viruses. In: Molecular Radiation Biology. Heidelberg Science Library. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-6247-0_12

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