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What is a virion?

What is a virion? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (virology) A single individual particle of a virus (the viral equivalent of a cell).
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Efective vaccination of cattle using the virion G protein of bovine ephemeral fever virus as an antigen.
The virion reproduces itself as from its genetic material only by replicating its genome.
Glycoprotein allows the virion to attach to a receptor on the host cell surface and thereby fuse with the host cell membrane, leading to infection.
We examined the efficiency of plaquing and phage virion integrity, as determined by in vitro assembly, immunological detection and electron microscopy.
The virus itself is a spherical enveloped virion, between 80 and 160 nm diameter, and has single stranded RNA of about 30 kilobases, the largest genome of all ssRNA viruses.
The virion of MuLV classifies it as a C-type virus, which assembles at the surface of infected cells, and acquires a plasma membrane envelope as it buds from a cell.

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