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ELECTRON microscopy has shown the regular way in which the elementary particles, or molecules, of the southern bean mosaic virus are arranged in its crystals1. Not all crystallizable viruses are equally easy to examine in this fashion ; but we have found that satisfactory photographs can be obtained of single crystals of a strain of the tobacco necrosis virus. They differ from the bean mosaic virus electron micrographs in a number of interesting and instructive ways.
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Markham, R., and Smith, Kenneth M., unpublished work.
Williams, R. C., and Wyckoff, R. W. G., Nature, 156, 68 (1945).
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MARKHAM, R., SMITH, K. & WYCKOFF, R. Electron Microscopy of Tobacco Necrosis Virus Crystals. Nature 159, 574 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/159574a0
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