Origin and Evolution of Viruses
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Origin and Evolution of Viruses

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eBook - ePub

Origin and Evolution of Viruses

About this book

New viral diseases are emerging continuously. Viruses adapt to new environments at astounding rates. Genetic variability of viruses jeopardizes vaccine efficacy. For many viruses mutants resistant to antiviral agents or host immune responses arise readily, for example, with HIV and influenza. These variations are all of utmost importance for human and animal health as they have prevented us from controlling these epidemic pathogens. This book focuses on the mechanisms that viruses use to evolve, survive and cause disease in their hosts. Covering human, animal, plant and bacterial viruses, it provides both the basic foundations for the evolutionary dynamics of viruses and specific examples of emerging diseases. - NEW - methods to establish relationships among viruses and the mechanisms that affect virus evolution - UNIQUE - combines theoretical concepts in evolution with detailed analyses of the evolution of important virus groups - SPECIFIC - Bacterial, plant, animal and human viruses are compared regarding their interation with their hosts

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Publisher
Academic Press
Year
2008
Edition
2
eBook ISBN
9780080564968
Topic
Biological Sciences
Subtopic
Infectious Diseases
Index
Biological Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover image
  2. Title page
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Copyright
  5. Contributors
  6. Preface to the Second Edition
  7. Preface to the First Edition
  8. Chapter 1: Early Replicons: Origin and Evolution
  9. Chapter 2: Structure and Evolution of Viroids
  10. Chapter 3: Mutation, Competition, and Selection as Measured with Small RNA Molecules
  11. Chapter 4: Viral Quasispecies: Dynamics, Interactions, and Pathogenesis
  12. Chapter 5: Comparative Studies of RNA Virus Evolution
  13. Chapter 6: Nucleic Acid Polymerase Fidelity and Viral Population Fitness
  14. Chapter 7: The Complex Interactions of Viruses and the RNAi Machinery: A Driving Force in Viral Evolution
  15. Chapter 8: The Role of the APOBEC3 Family of Cytidine Deaminases in Innate Immunity, G-to-A Hypermutation, and Evolution of Retroviruses
  16. Chapter 9: Lethal Mutagenesis
  17. Chapter 10: Evolution of dsDNA Tailed Phages
  18. Chapter 11: More About Plant Virus Evolution: Past, Present, and Future
  19. Chapter 12: Mutant Clouds and Bottleneck Events in Plant Virus Evolution
  20. Chapter 13: Retrovirus Evolution
  21. Chapter 14: Intra-host Dynamics and Evolution of HIV Infection
  22. Chapter 15: The Impact of Rapid Evolution of Hepatitis Viruses
  23. Chapter 16: Arbovirus Evolution
  24. Chapter 17: Evolution and Variation of the Parvoviruses
  25. Chapter 18: Genome Diversity and Evolution of Papillomaviruses
  26. Chapter 19: Origin and Evolution of Poxviruses
  27. Chapter 20: Molecular Evolution of the Herpesvirales
  28. Chapter 21: The Widespread Evolutionary Significance of Viruses
  29. Index

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