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Viruses and the environment /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cooper, J. I.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Chapman & Hall, [1996]
Edition:Second edition.
Subjects:
Viruses.
Virus Diseases > transmission.
Genetic Engineering.
Genome, Viral.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The nature of viruses
  • Introduction
  • Virus characteristics
  • Agents that were confused with viruses and how they differ
  • Virus names
  • Virus classification
  • Consequences of multiple infection
  • Appendix-virus families and groups recognized by ICTV
  • 2. Exposure to viruses and some consequences
  • Inoculation
  • Infection
  • Invasion
  • Response to the challenge
  • Virus transmission
  • 3. Viruses associated with invertebrates
  • Introduction
  • Invertebrates as virus vectors
  • Nematodes as virus vectors.
  • Insects as virus vectors
  • Acarina as virus vectors
  • Vertical transmission of viruses in insects and ticks
  • The range of insect-pathogenic virus
  • Consequences of virus introduction into invertebrate populations
  • Viruses in soil and predators
  • Occurrence of natural antibodies to invertebrate viruses in animals
  • Viruses infecting other invertebrates
  • 4. Viruses and the terrestrial environment
  • The range of viruses in terrestrial vertebrates
  • The range of viruses in terrestrial plants.
  • Factors affecting the occurrence of viruses
  • The concept of host range
  • Factors facilitating acquisition of novel hosts
  • The broadcasting of viruses
  • Epidemics, prospect and retrospect
  • A new dimension-genetically engineered viruses
  • 5. Viruses in aquatic environments
  • Introduction
  • Indigenous sources of viruses
  • Some extraneous sources of virus contamination
  • The fate of virus-contaminated sewage
  • 6. Strategies of virus maintenance in communities
  • Introduction
  • Agricultural plant populations.
  • Naturally regenerating populations
  • Vertebrate populations
  • Application of predator-prey models to virus-host dynamics
  • Regulation of population growth by viruses
  • The influence of immunities on virus maintenance in populations
  • Some problems in modelling virus-multicellular host systems
  • Virus dynamics in unicellular populations
  • The optimum maintenance strategy: speculation about the costs and benefits of co-evolution
  • Conclusion.