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Virus as Populations

Name: Virus as Populations
Author: Esteban Domingo

Composition, Complexity, Quasispecies, Dynamics, and Biological Implications

Esteban Domingo,

426 pages
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eBook - ePub

Virus as Populations

Composition, Complexity, Quasispecies, Dynamics, and Biological Implications

Esteban Domingo,

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Virus as Composition, Complexity, Quasispecies, Dynamics, and Biological Implications, Second Edition, explains the fundamental concepts surrounding viruses as complex populations during replication in infected hosts. Fundamental phenomena in virus behavior, such as adaptation to changing environments, capacity to produce disease, and the probability to be transmitted or respond to treatment all depend on virus population numbers. Concepts such as quasispecies dynamics, mutations rates, viral fitness, the effect of bottleneck events, population numbers in virus transmission and disease emergence, and new antiviral strategies are included.

The book's main concepts are framed by recent observations on general virus diversity derived from metagenomic studies and current views on the origin and role of viruses in the evolution of the biosphere.

Features current views on key steps in the origin of life and origins of viruses
Includes examples relating ancestral features of viruses with their current adaptive capacity
Explains complex phenomena in an organized and coherent fashion that is easy to comprehend and enjoyable to read
Considers quasispecies as a framework to understand virus adaptability and disease processes

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Publisher

Academic Press

Year

2019

ISBN

9780128163320

Edition

Topic

Biological Sciences

Subtopic

Microbiology

Index

Biological Sciences

Cover image
Title page
Table of Contents
Copyright
Foreword
Preface for the second edition
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Introduction to virus origins and their role in biological evolution
Chapter 2. Molecular basis of genetic variation of viruses: error-prone replication
Chapter 3. Darwinian principles acting on highly mutable viruses
Chapter 4. Interaction of virus populations with their hosts
Chapter 5. Viral fitness as a measure of adaptation
Chapter 6. Virus population dynamics examined with experimental model systems
Chapter 7. Long-term virus evolution in nature
Chapter 8. Quasispecies dynamics in disease prevention and control
Chapter 9. Trends in antiviral strategies
Chapter 10. Collective population effects in nonviral systems
Subject Index
Author Index