Web Directory

» Are Viruses Alive?
   Educational site that discusses what defines life and whether viruses fit into this definition.
   http://serc.carleton.edu/microbelife/yellowstone/viruslive.html

» Bacteriophage
   Information from Wikipedia on the viruses that infect bacteria, their classification, history, replication and uses.
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacteriophage

» Distemper and Influenza at Mill Hill
   Article by Rick Carver and John Skehel from the archives of the Mill Hill Essays 2000, about the group of viruses called paramyxoviruses.
   http://www.nimr.mrc.ac.uk/millhillessays/2000/influenza.htm

» Epstein-Barr Virus: Infectious Mononucleosis
   Research project by Michaela Weisser at the University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse.
   http://bioweb.uwlax.edu/bio203/s2009/weisser_mich

» HIV
   Research project by Kayleen Kinsley on the human immunodeficiency virus, including its classification, nutrition, reproduction, habitat, history and information on the disease it causes.
   http://bioweb.uwlax.edu/bio203/s2008/kinsley_kayl/

» Human rhinovirus
   Student project with taxonomy, phylogeny, anatomy, physiology and human significance.
   http://bioweb.uwlax.edu/bio203/2010/glodosky_chri/HumanRhinovirus/

» Index of Viruses
   Database of virus names, acronyms, hosts, and nucleic acids.
   http://www.ictvdb.rothamsted.ac.uk/Ictv/fr-index.htm

» Influenza Virus
   Images of flu virus particles and evidence of internal helical components, the virus's RNA.
   http://www.uct.ac.za/depts/mmi/stannard/fluvirus.html

» International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses
   Taxonomy of viruses, including electron microscopy pictures, and family descriptions.
   http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ICTVdb/Images/

» Origins of Viruses
   Article examining the evidence for how the first viruses may have appeared and how viruses, like other parasites, co-evolved with their hosts.
   http://www.mcb.uct.ac.za/tutorial/virorig.html#Virus%20Origins

» Principles of Virus Architecture
   Information regarding virus structures, images, and the use of stain to identify them.
   http://web.uct.ac.za/depts/mmi/stannard/virarch.html

» Rabies Virus
   Photographs and information on this virus that can be transmitted in saliva.
   http://fcps.edu/islandcreekes/ecology/rabies_virus.htm

» Taxonomy browser (Viruses)
   The NCBI Taxonomy database allows browsing of the taxonomy tree, which contains a classification of organisms.
   http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?name=Viruses

» The Big Picture Book of Viruses
   Specific information on viral families, genomes, taxonomy, and structure.
   http://www.virology.net/Big_Virology/BVHomePage.html

» The Influenza Sequence Database
   Database of virus information including nucleotide sequences.
   http://www.flu.lanl.gov/

» Tospoviruses
   Viruses in the genus Tospovirus cause significant worldwide crop losses. Provides information on their biology, transmission, host range, symptoms, distribution and management strategies.
   http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/pp134

» ViralZone
   Database of viruses. Information for each family includes molecular biology, taxonomic and host details, epidemiology and the UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot protein entries.
   http://www.expasy.org/viralzone/

» Virus
   Comprehensive information from Wikipedia on these sub-microscopic infectious agents that are unable to grow or reproduce outside a host cell.
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virus

» Virus Databases Online
   A comprehensive index of viruses provided by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses. Also provides a picture gallery, identification tool and software tools.
   http://www.ictvdb.rothamsted.ac.uk/

» West Nile Virus
   Provides a graphic model showing the incorporation of this virus into a host cell.
   http://www.biocarta.com/pathfiles/h_WNVpathway.asp