X CONTENTS 



VI. Chemical and Physicocliemical Properties of Infectious TMV- 



RNA 446 



A. Molecular Weight 446 



B. Lability 448 



C. Miscellaneous Reactions 450 



VII. Reconstitution of Viruses from Different Strains 450 



A. Mixed Viruses 451 



B. Mixed Nucleic Acid Viruses 452 



C. Search for in F*7ro-Produced Mutants 453 



References 455 



VII. The Comparative Chemistry of Infective Virus Particles and Their 

 Functional Activity: T2 and other Bacterial Viruses by E. A. 



Evans, Jr 459 



I. Introduction 459 



II. General Structure of Cohphage Particles 460 



III. The Protein Components of Coliphage Particles 461 



A. Amino Acid Context of Coliphage Proteins 461 



B. The Heterogeneity of Viral Protein 463 



IV. Nucleic Acid Components of Coliphage 466 



A. Analysis of Components of Viral Nucleic Acid 467 



B. Heterogeneity of Viral DNA 470 



V. Other Viral Specific Products 471 



Addendum 472 



References 472 



VIII. The Comparative Chemistry of Infective Virus Particles and of 

 other Virus-Specific Products: Animal Viruses by Werner 



SCHAFER 475 



I. Introduction 475 



II. Definition of the Various Virus-Specific Units 476 



III. Problems and Methods of Chemical Analysis 478 



IV. Chemical Composition of Infective Particles and Other Virus- 

 Specific Products 479 



A. Smaller Viruses 479 



B. Viruses of Medium Size 482 



C. Larger Viruses 491 



D. Summary 495 



V. Origin and Function of the Chemical Constituents of Animal 



Viruses 499 



References 501 



IX. Biochemistry of Insect Viruses by G. H. Bergold 505 



I. The Chemical Changes in the Insect Host during Virus Infection 505 



II. Physicochemical Properties and Chemical Composition of 

 Inclusion Bodies 507 



