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Author Holmes, Edward C

Title The evolution and emergence of RNA viruses / Edward C. Holmes
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 254 pages) : illustrations
Series Oxford series in ecology and evolution
Oxford series in ecology and evolution.
Contents Introduction -- Origins of RNA viruses -- Mechanisms of RNA virus evolution -- RNA virus quasispecies -- Comparative genomics and the macroevolution of RNA viruses -- Molecular epidemiology, phylogeography, and emergence of RNA viruses -- Case studies in RNA virus evolution and emergence
Summary RNA viruses provide unique insights into the patterns and processes of evolutionary change in real time. The study of viral evolution is especially topical given the growing awareness that emerging and re-emerging diseases (most of which are caused by RNA viruses) represent a major threat to public health. However, while the study of viral evolution has developed rapidly in the last 30 years, relatively little attention has been directed toward linking work on the mechanisms ofviral evolution within cells or individual hosts, to the epidemiological outcomes of these processes. This novel book
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-247) and index
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Subject RNA viruses.
Viruses -- Evolution.
Viral genetics.
Virus diseases.
Molecular evolution.
Viral genomes.
Phylogeny.
RNA Viruses -- genetics
Communicable Diseases, Emerging -- genetics
Evolution, Molecular
Genome, Viral
Phylogeny
RNA Virus Infections -- genetics
RNA Viruses
Virus Diseases
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Biology.
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Microbiology.
Viral genomes
Phylogeny
Molecular evolution
RNA viruses
Viral genetics
Virus diseases
Viruses -- Evolution
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2009284349
ISBN 9780191549403
0191549401