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Title

Viral ecology / edited by Christon J. Hurst.

Publication

San Diego, Calif. ; London : Academic, 2000.

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Additional Authors

Hurst, Christon J. (Christon James), 1954-

Description

xvi, 639 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subjects

• Host-Parasite Interactions
• Host-parasite relationships
• Viruses > Ecology
• Disease Vectors

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Sect. I. Structure and Behavior of Viruses: An Introduction. 1. Defining the Ecology of Viruses / Christon J. Hurst and H. D. Alan Lindquist. 2. An Introduction to Viral Taxonomy and the Proposal of Akamara, a Potential Domain for the Genomic Acellular Agents / Christon J. Hurst. 3. Virus Morphology, Replication, and Assembly / Debi P. Nayak. 4. An Introduction to the Evolutionary Ecology of Viruses / Victor R. DeFilippis and Luis P. Villarreal -- Sect. II. Viruses of Other Microorganisms. 5. Ecology of Bacteriophages in Nature / John H. Paul and Christina A. Kellogg. 6. Ecological, Evolutionary, and Geochemical Consequences of Viral Infection of Cyanobacteria and Eukaryotic Algae / Curtis A. Suttle. 7. Viruses of Fungi and Protozoans: Is Everyone Sick? / Jeremy A. Bruenn -- Sect. III. Viruses of Macroscopic Plants. 8. Ecology of Plant Viruses, with Special Reference to Whitefly-Transmitted Geminiviruses (WTGs) / Anju Chatterji and Claude M. Fauquet.
• 9. Viroid Diseases of Plants / Robert A. Owens -- Sect. IV. Viruses of Macroscopic Animals. 10. Ecology of Insect Viruses / Lorne D. Rothman and Judith H. Myers. 11. Ecology of Viruses of Cold-Blooded Vertebrates / V. Gregory Chinchar. 12. Virus Cycles in Aquatic Mammals, Poikilotherms, and Invertebrates / Alvin W. Smith. 13. Macroecology and Microecology of Viruses of Terrestrial Mammals / Charles H. Calisher and Frank J. Fenner. 14. Relationship Between Humans and Their Viruses / Christon J. Hurst and Noreen J. Adcock. 15. Impact of Avian Viruses / Michael L. Perdue and Bruce S. Seal. 16. Prion Diseases of Humans and Animals / Glenn C. Telling.

ISBN

0123626757

OCLC

• ocm43541833
• SCSB-3892341

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries