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Record Nr.

UNINA9910139628203321

Titolo

Animal host systems / / edited by Christon J. Hurst

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, N.J., : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011

ISBN

9786613175717

9781283175715

1283175711

9781118025697

1118025695

9781118025710

1118025717

9781118025673

1118025679

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (446 p.)

Collana

Studies in viral ecology ; ; v. 2

Altri autori (Persone)

HurstChriston J

Disciplina

579.2

579.217

Soggetti

Viruses - Ecology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

section 1. An introduction to the structure and behavior of viruses -- section 2. Viruses of macroscopic animals.

Sommario/riassunto

This book explains the ecology of viruses by examining their interactive dynamics with their hosting species (in this volume, in animals), including the types of transmission cycles that viruses have evolved encompassing principal and alternate hosts, vehicles and vectoring species. Examining virology from an organismal biology approach and focusing on the concept that viral infections represent areas of overlap in the ecologies of the involved species, Viral Ecology is essential for students and professionals who either may be non-virologists or virologists whose previous familiarity h