A naturalist’s book of viruses
by Jamie Henzy | Who isn’t intrigued by viruses? Capable of wiping out entire populations, causing epidemics of biblical proportions, and wrecking crops, viruses entered the consciousness of humans because of their destructive potential. Too tiny to be seen, they were born from Koch’s postulates, at first existing only in the imaginations of their early discoverers, such as Beijerinck, Ivanovsky, Twort, and d’Herelle. In the 1940s, electron micrographs revealed the first shadowy images of bacteriophage particles, and the eeriness of their outlines encouraged dread and captured the imagination of those who saw them.Rob Gifford’s insight:Share your insightSee it on Scoop.it, via Viruses and Bioinformatics from Virology.uvic.ca
A naturalist's book of viruses
Source: Viral Bioinformatics
