Journal of General Virology

Fig. 6. (a) Damaged virions of CaMV are adsorbed onto cleaved mica in physiological media. Loops of double-stranded DNA can be seen emerging, spreading onto the substrate from most of the particles. (b) TMV helices are seen unravelling at one or both ends and loops of single-stranded RNA complete with protein subunits are seen displayed on the mica. (c) Degraded virions of MoMLV are seen to release closed circular strands of RNA onto the mica substrate.

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