
Viruses
Molecular Biology, Host Interactions, and Applications to Biotechnology
Description
Key Features
- Provides key insights into recent technological advances, including high-throughput sequencing
- Presents viruses not only as formidable foes, but also as entities that can be beneficial to their hosts and humankind that are helping to shape the tree of life
- Features exposition on the diversity and versatility of viruses, how they cause disease, and an exploration of virus-host interactions
Readership
Researchers, academics, and students in Virology, Molecular Biology, Biotechnology, and Microbiology
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: A Short History of Virology
Gustavo Fermin, Paula Tennant
2. Virion Structure, Genome Organization and Taxonomy of Viruses
Gustavo Fermin
3. Replication and Expression Strategies of Viruses
Sephra Rampersad, Paula Tennant
4. Origins and Evolution of Viruses
Jerome Foster, Gustavo Fermin
5. Host Range, Host-Virus Interactions and Virus Transmission
Gustavo Fermin
6. Viruses as Pathogens: Plant Viruses
Paula Tennant, Augustine Gubba, Marcia Roye, Gustavo Fermin
7. Viruses as Pathogens: Animal Viruses, with Emphasis on Human Viruses
Jerome Foster, José andrés Mendoza, Janine Seetahal
8. Viruses as Pathogens: Animal Viruses Affecting Wild and Domesticated Species
Jerome Foster
9. Viruses of Prokaryotes, Protozoa, Fungi and Chromista
Gustavo Fermin, Sudeshna Mazumdar-Leighton, Paula Tennant
10. Host-Virus Interactions: Battles Between Viruses and Their Hosts
Gustavo Fermin, Paula Tennant
11. Beneficial Interactions with Viruses
Paula Tennant, Gustavo Fermin
12. Viruses as Tools of Biotechnology: Therapeutic Agents, Carriers of Therapeutic Agents and Genes, Nanomaterials, and More
Gustavo Fermin, Sephra Rampersad, Paula Tennant
13. Viruses as Targets for Biotechnology: Diagnosis and Detection, Transgenesis and Rnai- and CRISPR/Cas Engineered Resistance
Paula Tennant, Gustavo Fermin
14. Concluding Thoughts: It’s A Viral World
Paula Tennant, Gustavo Fermin
Product details
- No. of pages: 392
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2018
- Published: March 12, 2018
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128112571
- eBook ISBN: 9780128111949