Viruses

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

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

Complete Tospovirus Resource and Database
Tospoviruses, the only plant infecting members of Bunyaviridae, are a worldwide problem. This site features a searchable database of host plants.
http://www.oznet.ksu.edu/tospovirus/

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

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/

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

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

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

Plant Viruses Online
Provides an introduction to plant viruses and includes descriptions and lists of a large number of viruses taken from the VIDE Database.
http://image.fs.uidaho.edu/vide/

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

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

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