Molecular Basis of Virus Evolution

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Hardcover | 18 December 1995

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Advances in molecular biology have enabled leaps forward in the determination of virus phylogenetic history. This detailed book results from the invitation to foremost experts to give essays on aspects of virus biology based on current data. Initial chapters cover impacts of viruses and their control. Further chapters detail genetic variation of viruses and the molecular basis of interrelations with hosts. This leads to discussions of interactions with the host at the population level, and their molecular basis and evolution. Seventeen chapters follow, by specialists on particular groups of viruses describing their impact, genetic origins, sources of variation, population genetics and interactions with hosts. Practical virologists will find the chapters on phylogenetic analysis techniques very useful. The adaptive nature of viruses makes this work highly relevant to evolutionists.

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'... this book will be of interest to both professional virologists and evolutionists. It may also represent the coming of age of viral evolution.' Eddie Holmes, Society for General Microbiology Quarterly '... not only for virologists but for all who are interested in practical studies of biological evolution.' Reiner Spieker, Journal of Plant Physiology '... this is an excellent compilation of the spectrum of studies in this area ... A timely book with something for those interested in epidemiology and infection, but also in their theoretical basis.' Ursula Gompels, Epidemiology and Infection

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Editors+ preface
Introduction and Guide
The Impact of Viral Diseases
Classical studies of virus evolution
The evolution of virus diseases: their emergence, epidemicity and control
Origins of Viruses and their Genes: Origin of RNA viral genomes approaching the problem by comparative sequence analysis
Origins of DNA viruses
In search of the origins of viral genes
Cellular sequences in viral genomes
Sources of Virus Variation
Molecular mechanisms of point mutations in RNA viruses
Recombination and its evolutionary effect on viruses with RNA genomes
Molecular Interactions of Viruses and their Hosts: Viruses as ligands of eukaryotic cell surface molecules
The influence of immunity on virus evolution
Effect of variation within an HIV-1 envelope region containing neutralizing epitopes and virulence determinants
Viruses, Hosts and Populations
Quasi-species: the concept and the word
The co-evolutionary dynamics of viruses and their hosts
Population genetics of viruses: an introduction
Origin and evolution of prokaryotes
Molecular systematics and seed plant phylogeny: a summary of a parsimony analysis of rbcL sequence data
Case Studies of Viral Taxa their Systematics and Evolution
Evolution of poxviruses and African swine fever virus
Molecular systematics of the flaviviruses and their relatives
Herpesviridae
Aphthovirus evolution
Evolution of the Bunyaviridae
Evolution of the tobamoviruses
The luteovirus supergroup: rampant recombination and persistent partnerships
The evolution of the Reoviridae
Genetic variation and evolution of satellite viruses and satellite RNAs
Molecular evolution of the retroid family
Adaptation of members of the Orthomyxoviridae family to transmission by ticks Patricia
The Order Mononegavirales: evolutionary relationships and mechanisms of variation
The molecular evolution of the human immunodeficiency viruses
Molecular evolution of papillomaviruses
Molecular systematics of the Potyviridae, the largest plant virus family
Evolution of alphaviruses
Evolution of influenza viruses: rapid evolution and stasis
Techniques for Viral Systematics
The RNase A mismatch method for the genetic characterization of viruses
Molecular phylogenetic analysis
Index
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