Abstract
The coronavirus is something of a wolf in sheep’s clothing. Originally identified as a large pleomorphic enveloped RNA virus with unique external morphological features and a helical internal nucleocapsid (Tyrrell et al., 1975), the close parallels with negative strand RNA viruses prompted many investigators to search for a coronavirion transcriptase. It soon became clear however, that, despite their morphological appearance, the coronaviruses possess an infectious genome RNA which must, by definition, be of positive polarity.
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- Infectious Bronchitis Virus
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- Murine Hepatitis Virus
- Avian Infectious Bronchitis Virus
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Mahy, B.W.J. (1981). Biochemistry of Coronaviruses 1980. In: ter Meulen, V., Siddell, S., Wege, H. (eds) Biochemistry and Biology of Coronaviruses. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 142. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-0456-3_21
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