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Title:

Viral ecology / edited by Christon J. Hurst.

Publisher:

Academic,

Copyright Date:

2000

Description:

xvi, 639 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Viruses--Ecology.
Viruses.
Host-parasite relationships.

Other Authors:

Hurst, Christon J.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Ch. 1. Defining the ecology of viruses -- Ch. 2. An introduction to viral taxonomy and the proposal of Akamara, a potential domain for the genomic acellular agents -- Ch. 3. Virus morphology, replication, and assembly -- Ch. 4. An introduction to the evolutionary ecology of viruses -- Ch. 5. Ecology of bacteriophages in nature -- Ch. 6. Ecological, evolutionary, and geochemical consequences of viral infection of cyanobacteria and eukaryotic algae -- Ch. 7. Viruses of fungi and protozoans: is everyone sick?
Ch. 8. Ecology of plant viruses, with special reference to whitefly-Transmitted Geminiviruses(WTGs) -- Ch. 9. Viroid diseases of plants -- Ch. 10. Ecology of insect viruses -- Ch. 11. Ecology of viruses of cold-blooded vertebrates -- Ch. 12. Virus cycles in aquatic mammals, poikilotherms, and invertebrates -- Ch. 13. Macroecology and microecology of viruses of terrestrial mammals -- Ch. 14. Relationship between humans and their viruses -- Ch. 15. Impact of avian viruses -- Ch. 16. Prion diseases of humans and animals.

ISBN:

9780123626752
0123626757

OCLC:

(OCoLC)43541833

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)