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Description: Peribunyavirus virion structure. (a) representation of a virion in cross-section. The surface spikes comprise the Gn and Gc glycoproteins. The helical nucleocapsids are circular and comprise one each of the unique ssRNA segments (L, large; M, medium; S, small) encapsidated by N protein and associated with the L protein. (b) negative-stained transmission electron microscopy photograph of California encephalitis virus virions.
Title: Peribunyavirus virion structure
Credit: https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/jgv/10.1099/jgv.0.001365#html_fulltext
Author: (Left image) Holly R. Hughes, Scott Adkins​, Sergey Alkhovskiy​, Martin Beer​, Carol Blair​, Charles H. Calisher, Mike Drebot​, Amy J. Lambert​, William Marciel de Souza​, Marco Marklewitz, Márcio R. T. Nunes​, Xiǎohóng Shí (石晓宏), and ICTV Report Consortium (Right image) Center for disease Control (CDC): Frederick Murphy and Erskine Palmer
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