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| ==Higher Order Taxa==
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| Virus; ssRNA positive-strand viruses, no DNA stage; Astroviridae; Avastrovirus
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| ==Description and Significance
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| Astrovirus originated from ‘astron’, a Greek word for star because of the five-pointed or six-pointed side projection which can be detected by negative stained electron microscopy (EM). They were first described by Madeley & Cosgrove in 1975 as the causal for gastroenteritis in infants.
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| ==Genome structure==
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| Describe the size and content of the genome. How many chromosomes? Circular or linear? Other interesting features? What is known about its sequence?
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| ==Cell structure and metabolism==
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| Interesting features of cell structure; how it gains energy; what important molecules it produces.
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| ==Ecology==
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| Habitat; symbiosis; contributions to the environment.
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| ==Pathology==
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| How does this organism cause disease? Human, animal, plant hosts? Virulence factors, as well as patient symptoms.
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| ==Current Research==
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| Enter summarries of the most rescent research here--at least three required
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| ==References==
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| [Sample reference] [http://ijs.sgmjournals.org/cgi/reprint/50/2/489 Takai, K., Sugai, A., Itoh, T., and Horikoshi, K. "''Palaeococcus ferrophilus'' gen. nov., sp. nov., a barophilic, hyperthermophilic archaeon from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent chimney". ''International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology''. 2000. Volume 50. p. 489-500.]
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| Edited by student of [mailto:elilly@umassd.edu Emily Lilly] at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.
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Latest revision as of 08:03, 17 December 2008
