Virus Life in Diagrams

by Ackermann; Hans-Wolfgang

• ISBN13: 9780849331268
• ISBN10: 0849331269
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-04-07
• Publisher: CRC Press

Summary

This atlas presents 233 virus diagrams selected for their scientific content, clarity, originality, and historic, didactic, and aesthetic value. Virus Life in Diagrams assembles the many diagrams of viral life cycles, particle assembly, and strategies of nucleic acid replication that are scattered throughout the literature. The diagrams cover vertebrate, invertebrate, plant, bacterial, fungal, and protozoal viruses, viroids, and prions. They offer a dynamic illustration of the time course of viral life cycles not available in photographs. They also offer speculative elements that project the possible results of future research, as well as historical documentation that shows the development of virology. This valuable reference book for virologists, microbiologists, molecular biologists, geneticists, and students in these areas is the first atlas to compile illustrations of viral morphogenesis in one complete source.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii	(2)
The Authors	ix
Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION	1	(2)
Chapter 2 A SUMMARY OF VIRUS CLASSIFICATION	3	(4)
Chapter 3 THE REPLICATION CYCLE	7	(4)
Chapter 4 COMPARATIVE DIAGRAMS	11	(16)
Chapter 5 DNA VIRUSES	27	(88)
I. ssDNA viruses	27	(10)
A. Inoviridae	27	(4)
B. Microviridae	31	(4)
C. Parvoviridae	35	(2)
II. dsDNA viruses with cubic or helical symmetry	37	(39)
A. Adenoviridae	37	(7)
B. African swine fever group	44	(1)
C. Baculoviridae	45	(5)
D. Herpesviridae	50	(10)
E. Iridoviridae	60	(1)
F. Papovaviridae	61	(4)
G. Poxviridae	65	(9)
H. Tectiviridae	74	(2)
III. dsDNA viruses with binary symmetry	76	(39)
A. Myoviridae	85	(15)
B. Siphoviridae	100	(7)
C. Podoviridae	107	(8)
Chapter 6 VIRUSES WITH REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION	115	(22)
A. Genus Badnavirus	117	(1)
B. Genus Caulimovirus	118	(2)
C. Hepadnaviridae	120	(4)
D. Retroviridae	124	(13)
Chapter 7 RNA VIRUSES	137	(60)
I. ssRNA viruses with (+) strands	137	(24)
A. Bromoviridae	137	(1)
B. Coronaviridae	138	(1)
C. Flaviviridae	139	(2)
D. Leviviridae	141	(3)
E. Nodaviridae	144	(2)
F. Picornaviridae	146	(8)
G. Genus Tobamovirus	154	(2)
H. Togaviridae	156	(5)
I. Genus Tymovirus	161	(1)
II. ssRNA viruses with (-) strands	162	(22)
A. Arenaviridae	162	(2)
B. Bunyaviridae	164	(4)
C. Orthomyxoviridae	168	(6)
D. Paramyxoviridae	174	(4)
E. Rhabdoviridae	178	(6)
III. dsRNA viruses	184	(13)
A. Cystoviridae	184	(3)
B. Partitiviridae	187	(1)
C. Reoviridae	188	(7)
D. Totiviridae	195	(2)
Chapter 8 MISCELLANY	197	(6)
A. Virus-like particles	197	(1)
B. Agents with circular ssRNA	198	(3)
C. Prions	201	(2)
ABBREVIATIONS AND UNITS	203	(2)
GLOSSARY	205	(6)
REFERENCES	211	(8)
INDEX	219