Viruses molecular biology, host interactions, and applications to biotechnology / Paula Tennant, the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, Gustavo Fermin, Universidad de Los Andes, Mérida, Venezuela, Jerome E. Foster, the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad.

Author/creator Tennant, Paula
Other author Fermin, Gustavo.
Other author Foster, Jerome E. (Jerome Eucliffe)
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLondon ; San Diego ; Cambridge, MA ; Kidlington, Oxford : Elsevier : Academic Press, [2018]
Descriptionxvi, 375 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
Supplemental ContentFull text available from eBook - Immunology and Microbiology 2018
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Contents A short history of virology / Gustavo Fermin, Paula Tennant -- Virion structure, genome organization, and taxonomy of viruses / !r Gustavo Fermin -- Replication and expression strategies of viruses / Sephra Rampersad, Paula Tennant -- Origins and evolution of viruses / Jerome E. Foster, Gustavo Fermin -- Host range, host-virus interactions and virus transmission / Gustavo Fermin -- Viruses as pathogens: plant viruses / Paula Tennant, Augustine Gubba, Marcia Roye, Gustavo Fermin -- Viruses as pathogens: animal viruses, with emphasis on human viruses / Jerome E. Foster, José Andrés Mendoza, Janine Seetahal -- Viruses as pathogens: animal viruses affecting wild and domesticated species / Jerome E. Foster -- Viruses of prokaryotes, protozoa, fungi and chromista / Gustavo Fermin, Sudeshna Mazumdar-Leighton, Paula Tennant -- Host-virus interactions: battles between viruses and their hosts / Gustavo Fermin, Paula Tennant -- Beneficial interactions with viruses / Paula Tennant, Gustavo Fermin -- Viruses as tools of biotechnology: therapeutic agents, carriers of therapeutic agents and genes, nanomaterials, and more / Gustavo Fermin, Sephra Rampersad, Paula Tennant -- Viruses as targets for biotechnology: diagnosis and detection, transgenesis and RNAi- and CRISPR/Cas-engineered resistance / Paula Tennant, Gustavo Fermin.
Abstract Viruses: Molecular Biology, Host Interactions, and Applications to Biotechnology provides an up-to-date introduction to human, animal and plant viruses within the context of recent advances in high-throughput sequencing that have demonstrated that viruses are vastly greater and more diverse than previously recognized. It covers discoveries such as the Mimivirus and its virophage which have stimulated new discussions on the definition of viruses, their place in the current view, and their inherent and derived 'interactomics' as defined by the molecules and the processes by which virus gene products interact with themselves and their host's cellular gene products. Further, the book includes perspectives on basic aspects of virology, including the structure of viruses, the organization of their genomes, and basic strategies in replication and expression, emphasizing the diversity and versatility of viruses, how they cause disease and how their hosts react to such disease, and exploring developments in the field of host-microbe interactions in recent years. The book is likely to appeal, and be useful, to a wide audience that includes students, academics and researchers studying the molecular biology and applications of viruses.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2018937783
ISBN9780128112571 (pbk.)
ISBN0128112573 (pbk.)

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