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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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Academic Press,
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| Publisher Address: | San Diego : |
| Publication Dates: | 1999. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780122203602 |
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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 the ways viruses originated and co-evolved with their hosts. Origin and Evolution of Viruses presents a full and clear description of general viral concepts and specific viral systems, and provides an excellent foundation to our understanding of how viruses emerged. This unique and comprehensive work is essential reading for all researchers in virology, molecular biology and related areas, as well as evolutionary biologists interested in phylogenetic approaches to molecular evolution. The reader is taken on an illumination journey--in time and concepts--from the first primitive replicons to their present-day complex viral counterparts. Apart from the obvious interest, as humans are potential hosts for these viruses, there is also a great deal of academic interest in the evolutionary aspects of this simple group of organisms, since information can be gained about the origin of stains/species and evolutionary patterns that might be applicable to higher species. The book addresses: * Nature and evolution of early replicons * DNA and RNA viruses in both plants and animals * Viral origin, mutation, and survival * Antigenic variation in influenza virus * Interplay between host evolution and DNA virus evolution * Emergence of viral-induced diseases, e.g. hepatitis, influenza and HIV. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (viii, 499 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780122203602 0122203607 9781435604971 1435604970 0080538231 9780080538235 128105416X 9781281054166 |
| Index Number: | QR392 |
| CLC: | Q939.4 |
| 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 Escarmi s, Luis Mene ndez-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? / Jose Salas, Mari a L. Salas, Eladio Vin uela. |