Overview
- Includes the new taxonomy of viruses, officially established in 1999 Comprehensive description of all viruses, in the form of standardised entries arranged alphabetically
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Table of contents (341 entries)
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Birnaviridae
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Bornaviridae
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Bromoviridae
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Caliciviridae
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About this book
The continuous growth of knowledege makes it very difficult for scientists to retrieve comprehensive and accurate data on viruses. The desired information is often dispersed in a variety of books, journals and online resources. This encyclopedia presents the latest facts about all known viruses in a standardized form created by hundreds of the world's leading virologists.
Virus taxonomy represents the basic framework that allows an understanding of the complex evolutionary process that continuously takes place among viruses and their hosts. Each of the 300 taxonomically ordered chapters includes detailed information on individual genus members, historical events, the hosts they can affect (animal, man or plant), virion morphology, genome properties, replication strategy, properties of individual transcripts and proteins, sequence accession numbers, biological properties, diseases, recombinant vector constructs, vaccine strains, key references, as well as a high-resolution particle image and a drawing of the genome organization. Its high content of easily accessible detailed information makes this Encyclopedia an indispensable tool for both researchers and lecturers. The new edition includes the recent discoveries made in this field as well as new viruses which have been discovered.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Springer Index of Viruses
Editors: Christian Tidona, Gholamreza Darai
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-95919-1
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Reference Module Biomedical and Life Sciences
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-95918-4
eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-95919-1
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XXII, 2088
Number of Illustrations: 434 b/w illustrations
Topics: Virology, Medical Microbiology, Microbiology
Industry Sectors: Biotechnology, Pharma