Science

Database allowing browsing of the taxonomic tree, organism modifiers, bacterial phages and environmental samples.

Research project by Kayleen Kinsley on the human immunodeficiency virus, including its classification, nutrition, reproduction, habitat, history and information on the disease it causes.

Overview of phenotypic characteristics, such as morphology, nucleic acid type, mode of replication, host organisms, and the type of disease they cause. Includes historical references and related links.

Article on history, classification, mode of infecting bacteria, their replication and applications, with references and related links.

Educational resource about what defines life and whether viruses fit into this definition.

Article examining the evidence for how the first viruses may have appeared and how viruses, like other parasites, co-evolved with their hosts.

Research project in April 2009 by Michaela Weisser at the University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse.

Overview of the Bunyaviridae genus Tospovirus associated with worldwide crop losses, such as Tomato Chlorotic Spot Virus. Includes related links at the University of Florida.

Student project with taxonomy, phylogeny, anatomy, physiology and human significance.

Information for taxonomic classifications, families, hosts, epidemiology and molecular biology database of nucleotides and proteins.

A comprehensive index of viruses with picture gallery, identification and software tools.