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VIIIth Report of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses
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Edited By
Claude Fauquet, ILTAB/Danforth Plant Science Center, University of Missouri, St. Louis, U.S.A.
M.A. Mayo, Scottish Crop Institute, Invergowrie, Scotland
J. Maniloff, University Rochester, New York, U.S.A.
U. Desselberger, Virologie et Immunologie Moleculaires, Yvelines, France
L.A. Ball, University of Alabama, Birmingham, U.S.A.
Description
This is the standard and definitive reference for virus taxonomy, generated by the ICTV approximately every 3 years. The VIII
ICTV Virus Taxonomy Report provides information on 3 orders of viruses, 73 families, 9 subfamilies, 287 genera and 1938 virus
species, illustrated by more than 429 pictures and diagrams, most of them in color.
Audience
Research level virologists, microbiologists, molecular biologists, infectious disease specialists and those in the pharma sector working on antivirals
Contents
Contents
Preface
Part I: Introduction to Universal Virus Taxonomy 3
Part II: The Viruses 9
A Glossary of Abbreviations and Terms 10
Taxa Listed by Nucleic Acid and Size of the Genome 12
The Virosphere 2004 14
The Virus Diagrams 14
The Virus Particle Structures 19
The
Order of Presentation of the Viruses 23
The Double Stranded DNA Viruses 33
The Single Stranded DNA Viruses 277
The DNA and RNA Reverse
Transcribing Viruses 371
The Double Stranded RNA Viruses 441
The Negative Sense Single Stranded RNA Viruses 607
The Positive Sense Single
Stranded RNA Viruses 739
The Unassigned Viruses 1127
The Subviral Agents 1143
Viroids 1145
Satellites 1161
Vertebrate Prions 1169
Fungal
Prions 1177
Part III: The International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses 1189
Officers and Members of the ICTV, 1999-2002 1191
The
Statutes of the ICTV, 1998 1203
The Code of Virus Classification and Nomenclature, 1998 1207
Part IV: Indexes 1213
Virus Index 1215
Taxonomic Index 1256
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Hardbound, 1162 pages, publication date: JUL-2005
ISBN-13: 978-0-12-249951-7
ISBN-10: 0-12-249951-4
Imprint: ACADEMIC PRESS
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