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Plant Virus Evolution

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224 Seiten
Englisch
Springer Berlin Heidelbergerschienen am23.02.20082008
This book provides a comprehensive look at the field of plant virus evolution. It is the first book ever published on the topic. Individual chapters, written by experts in the field, cover plant virus ecology, emerging viruses, plant viruses that integrate into the host genome, population biology, evolutionary mechanisms and appropriate methods for analysis. It covers RNA viruses, DNA viruses, pararetroviruses and viroids, and presents a number of thought-provoking ideas.mehr
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KlappentextThis book provides a comprehensive look at the field of plant virus evolution. It is the first book ever published on the topic. Individual chapters, written by experts in the field, cover plant virus ecology, emerging viruses, plant viruses that integrate into the host genome, population biology, evolutionary mechanisms and appropriate methods for analysis. It covers RNA viruses, DNA viruses, pararetroviruses and viroids, and presents a number of thought-provoking ideas.
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Weitere ISBN/GTIN9783540757634
ProduktartE-Book
EinbandartE-Book
FormatPDF
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FormatE107
Erscheinungsjahr2008
Erscheinungsdatum23.02.2008
Auflage2008
Seiten224 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
IllustrationenX, 224 p. 29 illus.
Artikel-Nr.1429401
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Genre9200

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
1;Preface;5
2;Contents;6
3;Contributors;8
4;1 Questions and Concepts in Plant Virus Evolution: a Historical Perspective;10
4.1;1.1 Introduction;11
4.2;1.2 The Early Period;11
4.3;1.3 The Analysis of Viral Genomes and Its Impact on Virus Evolution Research: Quasispecies and Phylogenetics;12
4.4;1.4 The Challenge to the Dogma: Viruses Might Be Not So Variable nor Might Their Populations Be So Big;15
4.5;1.5 Recent Times: New Concepts and New Challenges;17
4.6;1.6 Final Comments;19
4.7;References;19
5;2 Community Ecology of Plant Viruses;24
5.1;2.1 Introduction;25
5.2;2.2 Patterns of Host and Vector Specialization;26
5.3;2.3 Virus Interactions Within and Among Hosts;28
5.4;2.4 Virus Spread in a Community Context;29
5.5;2.5 Viruses and Plant Invasions;31
5.6;2.6 Summary;32
5.7;References;33
6;3 Emerging Plant Viruses: a Diversity of Mechanisms and Opportunities;36
6.1;3.1 Introduction;37
6.2;3.2 What are Some Plant Viruses that Presently are Considered as Emergent?;38
6.3;3.3 What Factor(s) Lead to the Emergence of a Plant Virus?;39
6.4;3.4 Reassortment and Recombination: Effective Mechanisms of Variability for DNA Viruses;46
6.5;3.5 Tripartite Begomovirus Complexes: A Way for Bipartite Begomoviruses To Fight Host Defense Responses?;48
6.6;3.6 Acquisition of Novel Viruslike Entities: Monopartite Begomoviruses and their Satellite DNAs;49
6.7;3.7 Emergence of Diseases Caused by Novel Viruslike Agents;51
6.8;3.8 Multiple Mechanisms often Underlie the Emergence of Plant Viruses;51
6.9;3.9 Bringing Them All Together: Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl/ Leaf Curl Disease in West Africa;52
6.10;3.10 Emergence of a New Virus is not always Catastrophic: Failure of New Viral Diseases to Emerge Following a Major Change in the Whitefly Vector Population;53
6.11;3.11 Conclusions;56
6.12;References;57
7;4 Evolution of Integrated Plant Viruses;61
7.1;4.1 Introduction;62
7.2;4.2 Plant DNA Viruses;63
7.3;4.3 Detection of Integrated Plant DNA Virus Sequences;65
7.4;4.4 EPRVs Identified in Plant Genomes;67
7.5;4.5 Integration of DNA Copies of RNA Viruses and Viroids;70
7.6;4.6 Evolution;71
7.7;4.7 Conclusions;83
7.8;References;84
8;5 Viroids;90
8.1;5.1 Introduction;91
8.2;5.2 Genome Structure and Replication Strategy;91
8.3;5.3 Evolutionary Relationships Among Subviral RNAs;95
8.4;5.4 Possible Roles of Conserved Sequence Motifs in Viroid Evolution;97
8.5;5.5 Structure of Viroid Quasispecies;98
8.6;5.6 Origin and Evolution of Viroids;109
8.7;5.7 Concluding Remarks;111
8.8;References;112
9;6 Virus Populations, Mutation Rates and Frequencies;116
9.1;6.1 Introduction;117
9.2;6.2 Mutation Sources and Mutagenic Agents;117
9.3;6.3 Quantifying Methods;119
9.4;6.4 Mutational Spectrum;119
9.5;6.5 Mutation Rates Versus Adaptation;120
9.6;6.6 Intrahost Versus Interhost Diversity of Plant Virus Population;121
9.7;6.7 Replication Strategy;122
9.8;6.8 RNA Versus DNA Viruses;123
9.9;6.9 Virus Populations;124
9.10;6.10 Conclusion;124
9.11;References;125
10;7 Genetic Bottlenecks;129
10.1;7.1 Introduction;130
10.2;7.2 Bottlenecks During Systemic Infections;131
10.3;7.3 Bottlenecks During Horizontal Transmission;132
10.4;7.4 Bottlenecks During Vertical Transmission;132
10.5;7.5 Genetic Drift Versus Selection;133
10.6;7.6 Effective Population Size;133
10.7;7.7 Muller s Ratchet in Plant Viruses;134
10.8;7.8 Bottlenecks and Speciation;135
10.9;7.9 Conclusions;135
10.10;References;135
11;8 Recombination in Plant RNA Viruses;138
11.1;8.1 Introduction;139
11.2;8.2 The Benefit of RNA Recombination to RNA Virus Evolution;139
11.3;8.3 The Role of RNA Recombination in Plant Virus Variability;141
11.4;8.4 Experimental Approaches to Study Viral RNA Recombination;143
11.5;8.5 Mechanisms of RNA Recombination;144
11.6;8.6 Classification of RNA Recombinants;145
11.7;8.7 The Role of Viral Replication Proteins in RNA Recombination;148
11.8;8.8 Viral RNA Sequences Form Recombination Hotspots and Coldspots;150
11.9;8.9 The Role of the Host Genes in RNA Recombination;152
11.10;8.10 Conclusions;154
11.11;References;155
12;9 Symbiosis, Mutualism and Symbiogenesis;162
12.1;9.1 Introduction;162
12.2;9.2 Virus-Host Symbiosis;163
12.3;9.3 Virus-Host Symbiogenesis;164
12.4;9.4 Virus-Virus Symbiosis;164
12.5;9.5 Virus-Virus Symbiogenesis;165
12.6;9.6 Conclusions;166
12.7;References;166
13;10 Methods for Analyzing Viral Evolution;170
13.1;10.1 Introduction;171
13.2;10.2 Alignment Strategies;171
13.3;10.3 Model Selection: Beyond Kimura 2-Parameter;176
13.4;10.4 Phylogenetic Inference: Picking Trees from the Forest;181
13.5;10.5 Population Inference;188
13.6;10.6 Summary;200
13.7;References;200
14;11 Virus Evolution and Taxonomy;210
14.1;11.1 Brief Overview of Virus Taxonomy;211
14.2;11.2 Elements Dictating Taxonomy;211
14.3;11.3 Taxonomy and Evolution;212
14.4;11.4 The Problems of Plant Virus Taxonomy;215
14.5;11.5 Concluding Remarks;219
14.6;References;221
15;Index;223mehr