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DEDICATION ix
PREFACE xi
CONTRIBUTORS xiii
ATTRIBUTION CREDITS FOR COVER AND SPINE ARTWORK xv
SECTION I AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STRUCTURE AND BEHAVIOR OF VIRUSES 1
1 Defining the Ecology of Viruses 3Christon 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 41Christon J. Hurst
3 Virus Morphology, Replication, and Assembly 67Debi P. Nayak
4 The (Co)Evolutionary Ecology of Viruses 131Michael J. Allen
SECTION II VIRUSES OF OTHER MICROORGANISMS 145
5 Bacteriophage and Viral Ecology as Seen Through the Lens of Nucleic Acid Sequence Data 147Eric Sakowski, William Kress, and K. Eric Wommack
6 Viruses of Cyanobacteria 169Lauren D. McDaniel
7 Viruses of Eukaryotic Algae 189William H. Wilson and Michael J. Allen
8 Viruses of Seaweeds 205Declan C. Schroeder
9 The Ecology and Evolution of Fungal Viruses 217Michael G. Milgroom and Bradley I. Hillman
10 Prion Ecology 255Reed B. Wickner
SECTION III VIRUSES OF MACROSCOPIC PLANTS 271
11 Ecology of Plant Viruses, with Special Reference to Geminiviruses 273Basavaprabhu L. Patil and Claude M. Fauquet
12 Viroids and Viroid Diseases of Plants 307Ricardo Flores, Francesco Di Serio, Beatriz Navarro, Nuria Duran-Vila, and Robert A. Owens
INDEX 343
VOLUME 2
2 An Introduction to Viral Taxonomy with Emphasis on Animal Hosts and the Proposal of Akamara, a Potential Domain for the Genomic Acellular Agents 41Christon J. Hurst
3 Virus Morphology, Replication, and Assembly 63Debi P. Nayak
4 The (Co)evolutionary Ecology of Viruses 127Michael J. Allen
SECTION II VIRUSES OF MACROSCOPIC ANIMALS 141
5 Coral Viruses 143William H. Wilson
6 Viruses Infecting Marine Molluscs 153Tristan Renault
7 The Viral Ecology of Aquatic Crustaceans 177Leigh Owens
8 Viruses of Fish 191Audun Helge Nerland, Aina-Cathrine Øvergard, and Sonal Patel
9 Ecology of Viruses Infecting Ectothermic Vertebrates—The Impact of Ranavirus Infections on Amphibians 231V. Gregory Chinchar, Jacques Robert, and Andrew T. Storfer
10 Viruses of Insects 261Declan C. Schroeder
11 Viruses of Terrestrial Mammals 273Laura D. Kramer and Norma P. Tavakoli
12 Viruses of Cetaceans 309Marie-Franc¸oise Van Bressem and Juan A. Raga
13 The Relationship Between Humans, Their Viruses, and Prions 333Christon J. Hurst
14 Ecology of Avian Viruses 365Josanne H. Verhagen, Ron A.M. Fouchier, and Vincent J. Munster
INDEX 395
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