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Origin and evolution of viruses /

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Are infectious diseases caused by novel entities, viruses that have rapidly evolved into more pathogenic forms, or viruses that have crossed species divides and become more virulent in their alternative host? These questions and how new diseases such as AIDS emerged have prompted renewed interest in...

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Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Other Authors: Domingo, Esteban, Webster, Robert G., 1932-, Holland, John J.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: San Diego : Academic Press, ©1999.
Subjects:
Viruses > Evolution.
Viruses.
Viruses > Origin.
Viruses
Evolution
Virus > Origines.
Virus > Évolution.
Virus.
evolution.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Biology.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Microbiology.
Evolution.
Viruses > Evolution
Virus > croissance et développement.
Virologie.
Virussen (biologie)
Oorsprong.
Evolutie.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Nature and evolution of early replicons / Peter Schuster, Peter F. Stadler
  • Virus origins: conjoined RNS genomes as precursors to DNA genomes / Hugh D. Robertson, Olivia D. Neel
  • Viroids in plants: shadows and footprints of a primitive RNA / J.S. Semancik, N. Duran-Vila
  • Mutation, competition and selection as measured with small RNA molecules / Christof K. Biebricher
  • The fidelity of cellular and viral polymerases and its manipulation for hypermutagenesis / Andreas Meyerhans, Jean-Pierre Vartanian
  • Drift and conservatism in RNA virus evolution: are they adapting or merely changing? / Monica Sala, Simon Wain-Hobson
  • Viral quasispecies and fitness variations / Esteban Domingo, Cristina Escarmís, Luis Menéndez-Arias [and others]
  • The retroid agents: disease, function and evolution / Marcella A. McClure
  • Dynamics of HIV pathogenesis and treatment / Dominik Wodarz, Martin A. Nowak
  • Interplay between experiment and theory in development of a working model for HIV-1 population dynamics / I.M. Rouzine, J.M. Coffin
  • Plant virus evolution: past, present and future / A.J. Gibbs, P.L. Keese, M.J. Gibbs [and others]
  • Genetics, pathogenesis and evolution of picornaviruses / Matthias Gromeier, Eckard Wimmer, Alexander E. Gorbalenya
  • The impact of rapid evolution of the hepatitis viruses / Juan I. Esteban, Maria Martell, William F. Carman [and others]
  • Antigenic variation in influenza viruses / Robert G. Webster
  • DNA virus contribution to host evolution / Luis P. Villarreal
  • Parvovirus variation and evolution / Colin R. Parrish, Uwe Truyen
  • The molecular evolutionary history of herpesviruses / Duncan J. McGeoch, Andrew J. Davison
  • African swine fever virus: a missing link between poxviruses and iridoviruses? / José Salas, María L. Salas, Eladio Viñuela.