عنوان

Genetic Diversity of RNA Viruses

3540546529

3642770118

9783540546528

9783642770111

b551236

Genetic Diversity of RNA Viruses

[Book]

edited by John J. Holland.

Berlin, Heidelberg

Springer Berlin Heidelberg

1992

(x, 226 pages 34 illustrations)

Current topics in microbiology and immunology, 176.

List of Contents --;RNA Virus Populations as Quasispecies --;Genetic Recombination in RNA Viruses --;Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus Populations Are Quasispecies --;Genetic Diversity and Rapid Evolution of Poliovirus in Human Hosts --;Mutations and All Hypermutations in Measles Virus Persistent Infections --;Evolutionary Processes in Influenza Viruses: Divergence, Rapid Evolution, and Stasis --;Genetic Diversity and Slow Rates of Evolution in New World Alphaviruses --;Emergence and Transmission of Influenza A Viruses Resistant to Amatadine and Rimantadine --;Selection of Zidovudine-Resistant Variants of Human Immunodeficiency Virus by Therapy --;Genetic Diversity and Evolution of Retroviruses --;Retroviral Reverse Transcriptases: Error Frequencies and Mutagenesis --;Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Quasispecies In Vivo and Ex Vivo --;Tracing the Origin of Retroviruses --;Replication and Evolution of Viroid-Like Pathogens.

Many RNA viruses have been known for decades to be genetically and biologically quite variable. This hypermutability of RNA replicons provides great biological adaptability for RNA virus genomes.

Immunology.

Medicine.

Microbiology.

edited by John J. Holland.

John J Holland

[Book]

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