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HIGH-SPEED electrons have been used in a variety of investigations dealing with the action of ionizing radiation on viruses1 but only whole virus was studied in these instances. The relatively recent finding that the nucleic acid portion of viruses represents the infectious unit has led to comparative investigations of the relative sensitivities of infectious nucleic acid and whole virus to ultra-violet irradiation2 and X-rays3. The availability locally of a linear accelerator has made a comparable investigation with fast electrons possible.
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CHESSIN, M., SOLBERG, R. & JAKOBSON, M. Differential Sensitivity of Tobacco Mosaic Virus and its Infectious Nucleic Acid to Fast Electrons. Nature 202, 830–831 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/202830b0
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