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viral capsid
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viral capsid

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Also known as GO:0019028, virus capsid, capsid

thumb|right|Schematic of a cytomegalovirus

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Encyclopedic overview

10 sections
Contents
  • Specific shapes
  • Icosahedral
  • Prolate
  • Helical
  • Functions
  • Origin and evolution
  • See also
  • References
  • Further reading
  • External links

thumb|right|Schematic of a cytomegalovirus

thumb|right|Illustration of geometric model changing between two possible capsids. A similar change of size has been observed as the result of a single amino-acid mutation

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “viral capsid” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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