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 has been very specialized.
VOLUME
1. DEDICATION. PREFACE. CONTRIBUTORS. ATTRIBUTION
CREDITS FOR COVER AND SPINE ARTWORK. SECTION I AN INTRODUCTION TO THE
STRUCTURE AND BEHAVIOR OF VIRUSES. 1 Defining the Ecology of Viruses
(Christon J. Hurst). 2 An Introduction to Viral Taxonomy with Emphasis on
Microbial and Botanical Hosts and the Proposal of Akamara, a Potential Domain
for the Genomic Acellular Agents (Christon J. Hurst). 3 Virus Morphology,
Replication, and Assembly (Debi P. Nayak). 4 The (Co)Evolutionary Ecology
of Viruses (Michael J. Allen). SECTION II VIRUSES OF OTHER
MICROORGANISMS. 5 Bacteriophage and Viral Ecology as Seen Through the
Lens of Nucleic Acid Sequence Data (Eric Sakowski, William Kress, and K. Eric
Wommack). 6 Viruses of Cyanobacteria (Lauren D. McDaniel). 7 Viruses
of Eukaryotic Algae (William H. Wilson and Michael J. Allen). 8 Viruses
of Seaweeds (Declan C. Schroeder). 9 The Ecology and Evolution of Fungal
Viruses (Michael G. Milgroom and Bradley I. Hillman). 10 Prion Ecology
(Reed B. Wickner). SECTION III VIRUSES OF MACROSCOPIC PLANTS. 11
Ecology of Plant Viruses, with Special Reference to Geminiviruses
(Basavaprabhu L. Patil and Claude M. Fauquet). 12 Viroids and Viroid
Diseases of Plants (Ricardo Flores, Francesco Di Serio, Beatriz Navarro,
Nuria Duran-Vila, and Robert A. Owens). INDEX. VOLUME
2.
DEDICATION. PREFACE. CONTRIBUTORS. ATTRIBUTION CREDITS FOR COVER
AND SPINE ARTWORK. SECTION I AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STRUCTURE AND
BEHAVIOR OF VIRUSES. 1 Defining the Ecology of Viruses (Christon J.
Hurst). 2 An Introduction to Viral Taxonomy with Emphasis on Animal Hosts
and the Proposal of Akamara, a Potential Domain for the Genomic Acellular
Agents (Christon J. Hurst). 3 Virus Morphology, Replication, and Assembly
(Debi P. Nayak). 4 The (Co)evolutionary Ecology of Viruses (Michael J.
Allen). SECTION II VIRUSES OF MACROSCOPIC ANIMALS. 5 Coral Viruses
(William H. Wilson). 6 Viruses Infecting Marine Molluscs (Tristan
Renault). 7 The Viral Ecology of Aquatic Crustaceans (Leigh Owens). 8
Viruses of Fish (Audun Helge Nerland, Aina-Cathrine Overgard, and Sonal
Patel). 9 Ecology of Viruses Infecting Ectothermic Vertebrates The
Impact of Ranavirus Infections on Amphibians (V. Gregory Chinchar, Jacques
Robert, and Andrew T. Storfer). 10 Viruses of Insects (Declan C.
Schroeder). 11 Viruses of Terrestrial Mammals (Laura D. Kramer and Norma
P. Tavakoli). 12 Viruses of Cetaceans (Marie-Franc,oise Van Bressem and
Juan A. Raga). 13 The Relationship Between Humans, Their Viruses, and
Prions (Christon J. Hurst). 14 Ecology of Avian Viruses (Josanne H.
Verhagen, Ron A.M. Fouchier, and Vincent J. Munster). INDEX.
Professor Hurst is an affiliated faculty member at Xavier University and holds a life appointment as Visiting Professor at Universidad del Valle in Columbia. He has authored several books on viruses and viral ecology and has been a leader in defining the field of Viral Ecology.
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