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Virion

"Virion" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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The infective system of a virus, composed of the viral genome, a protein core, and a protein coat called a capsid, which may be naked or enclosed in a lipoprotein envelope called the peplos.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Virion" by people in this website by year, and whether "Virion" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 39 publications over 20 distinct years, with a maximum of 4 publications in 2006 and 2008
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