Viral ecology
By: edited by Christon J. Hurst
Contributors: Hurst, Christon J
Publisher: Academic
Published: 2000
Place of publication: San Diego, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 639
Subjects: Viruses -- Ecology; Viruses; Host-parasite relationships
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Ch. 1. Defining the ecology of viruses; title: Ch. 2. An introduction to viral taxonomy and the proposal of Akamara, a potential domain for the genomic acellular agents; title: Ch. 3. Virus morphology, replication, and assembly; title: Ch. 4. An introduction to the evolutionary ecology of viruses; title: Ch. 5. Ecology of bacteriophages in nature; title: Ch. 6. Ecological, evolutionary, and geochemical consequences of viral infection of cyanobacteria and eukaryotic algae; title: Ch. 7. Viruses of fungi and protozoans: is everyone sick?; title: Ch. 8. Ecology of plant viruses, with special reference to whitefly-Transmitted Geminiviruses(WTGs); title: Ch. 9. Viroid diseases of plants; title: Ch. 10. Ecology of insect viruses; title: Ch. 11. Ecology of viruses of cold-blooded vertebrates; title: Ch. 12. Virus cycles in aquatic mammals, poikilotherms, and invertebrates; title: Ch. 13. Macroecology and microecology of viruses of terrestrial mammals; title: Ch. 14. Relationship between humans and their viruses; title: Ch. 15. Impact of avian viruses; title: Ch. 16. Prion diseases of humans and animals