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    Invertebrate Precursors to Immune Responses

    As long as there are useful invertebrates like earthworms, oysters, or honey bees to be protected, and others like tapeworms, slugs, and mosquitoes to be destroyed, there will be a utilitarian justification fo...

    F. M. Burnet in Contemporary Topics in Immunobiology (1974)

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    Genetics of Animal Viruses

    Genetics is concerned with the manner in which the characteristics of an organism are transmitted to its descendants. In view of the near universality of sexual reproduction in organisms of human interest, it ...

    F. M. Burnet in Handbuch der Virusforschung (1958)

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    Variation in Influenza Viruses

    There are two aspects to any discussion of variation amongst the influenza viruses. On the one hand there are the directly observable changes in character that occur in the course of experimental manipulation ...

    F. M. Burnet in Handbuch der Virusforschung (1950)

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    The growth of viruses on the chorioallantois of the chick embryo

    In 1931, Woodruff and Goodpasture reported that the virus of fowl-pox could be grown on the chorioallantois of the develo** chick, and that proliferative lesions containing typical inclusion bodies were produce...

    F. M. Burnet in Handbuch der Virusforschung (1938)