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Prompted by Professor Lwoff's article “Principles of Classification and Nomenclature of Viruses” (Nature, 215, 13; 1967), Drs Gibbs and Harrison defend the idea of the cryptogram, and explain its advantage over a binomial system of nomenclature for viruses.
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GIBBS, A., HARRISON, B. Realistic Approach to Virus Classification and Nomenclature. Nature 218, 927–929 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/218927a0
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