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1 Online-Ressource (xix, 603 pages)
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digital, PDF file(s)
ISBN:
9780511661686
Content:
Advances in molecular biology have enabled leaps forward in the determination of virus phylogenetic history. This detailed 1995 book results from the invitation to foremost experts to give essays on aspects of virus biology. Initial chapters cover impacts of viruses and their control. Further chapters detail genetic variation of viruses and the molecular basis of interrelations with hosts. This leads to discussions of interactions with the host at the population level, and their molecular basis and evolution. Seventeen chapters follow, by specialists on particular groups of viruses describing their impact, genetic origins, sources of variation, population genetics and interactions with hosts. Practical virologists will find the chapters on phylogenetic analysis techniques very useful. The adaptive nature of viruses makes this work highly relevant to evolutionists
Content:
Introduction and guide / Adrian Gibbs, Charles Calisher and Fernando García-Arenal -- Classical studies of virus evolution / Frank Fenner -- The evolution of virus diseases : their emergence, epidemicity, and control / Neal Nathanson, Kathleen A. McGann and John Wilesmith -- Origin of RNA viral genomes : approaching the problem by comparative sequence analysis / Alexander E. Gorbalenya -- Origins of DNA viruses / Duncan J. McGeoch and Andrew J. Davison -- In search of the origins of viral genes / Adrian Gibbs and Paul K. Keese -- Cellular sequences in viral genomes / Gregor Meyers, Norbert Tautz, and Heinz-Jürgen Theil -- Molecular mechanisms of point mutations in RNA viruses / Bertha-Cecilia Ramírez [and others] -- Recombination and its evolutionary effect on viruses with RNA genomes / Michael M.C. Lai -- Viruses as ligands of eukaryotic cell surface molecules / Thomas L. Lentz -- The influence of immunity on virus evolution / Charles R.M. Bangham -- Effect of variation within an HIV-1 envelope region containing neutralizing epitopes and virulence determinants / Jaap Goudsmit -- Quasi-species : the concept and the word / Estaban Domingo [and others] -- The co-evolutionary dynamics of viruses and their hosts / Robert M. May -- Population genetics of viruses : an introduction / A. Moya and F. García-Arenal -- Origin and evolution of prokaryotes / E. Stackebrandt -- Molecular systematics and seed plant phylogeny : a summary of a parsimony analysis of rbcL sequence data / Kathleen A. Kron and Mark W. Chase -- Evolution of poxviruses and African swine fever virus / R. Blasco -- Molecular systematics of the flaviviruses and their relatives / Jan Blok and Adrian J. Gibbs -- Herpesviridae / Andrew J. Davison and Duncan J. McGeoch -- Aphthovirus evolution / J. Dopazo [and others] -- Evolution of the Bunyaviridae / Richard M. Elliott -- Evolution of the tobamoviruses / Aurora Fraile, Miguel A. Aranda and Fernando García-Arenal -- The luteovirus supergroup : rampant recombination and persistent partnerships / Mark Gibbs -- The evolution of the Reoviridae / Wolfgang K. Joklik and Michael R. Roner -- Genetic variation and evolution of satellite viruses and satellite RNAs / G. Kurath and C. Robaglia -- Molecular evolution of the retroid family / Marcella A. McClure -- Adaptation of members of the Orthomyxoviridae family to transmission by ticks / Patricia A. Nuttall [and others] -- The Order Mononegavirales : evolutionary relationships and mechanisms of variation / C.R. Pringle -- The molecular evolution of the human immunodeficiency viruses / Paul M. Sharp, Conal J. Burgess and Beatrice H. Hahn -- Molecular evolution of papillomaviruses / Marc Van Ranst [and others] -- Molecular systematics of the Potyviridae, the largest plant virus family / Colin W. Ward [and others] -- Evolution of alphaviruses / Scott C. Weaver -- Evolution of influenza viruses : rapid evolution and stasis / R.G. Webster, W.J. Bean, O.T. Gorman -- The RNase A mismatch method for the genetic characterization of viruses / C. López-Galíndez, J.M. Rojas, J. Dopazo -- Molecular phylogenetic analysis / Georg F. Weiller, Marcella A. McClure, Adrian J. Gibbs
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521455336
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521022897
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780521455336
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511661686
