Nice to see this group: as a frequent contributor to the old
bionet.virology, I wondered what had happened - did a search, and up
popped this group! I hope it is as well used as the old one.
Apropos of which, while searching for things I KNEW I had written on
definitions of viruses, I turned up this...
Ed Rybicki ED at MOLBIOL.UCT.AC.ZA
Fri Jan 26 03:03:02 EST 1996
...
"Viroids are small naked circular ssRNA genomes which appear rodlike
under the EM, ... "
Ed Rybicki, PhD
Dept Microbiology | ed at molbiol.uct.ac.za
University of Cape Town | phone: x27-21-650-3265
Private Bag, Rondebosch | fax: x27-21-650 4023
7700, South Africa |
WWW URL: http://www.uct.ac.za/microbiology/ed.html
"And then one day you find, ten years have got behind you"
And man, did they ever...!
Ed Rybicki
Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine
University of Cape Town
