Studies in Viral Ecology: Microbial and Botanical Host Systems

Professor Hurst is an affiliated faculty member at Xavier University and holds a life appointment as Visiting Professor at Universidad del Valle in Columbia. He has authored several books on viruses and viral ecology and has been a leader in defining the field of Viral Ecology.

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