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Viruses : molecular biology, host interactions, and applications to biotechnology /

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 pre...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Tennant, Paula (Autor), Fermin, Gustavo (Autor), Foster, Jerome E. (Jerome Eucliffe) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; San Diego ; Cambridge, MA ; Kidlington, Oxford : Elsevier : Academic Press, [2018]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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, Jos�e Andr�es 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.