/ edited by Esteban Domingo, Robert Webster, John Holland
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
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San Diego
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: Academic Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
, c1999.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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viii, 499 p.
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: ill. ; 26 cm.
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INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Nature and evolution of early replicons / Peter Schuster, Peter F. Stadler -- Virus origins: conjoined RNS genomes as precursors to DNA genomes / Hugh D. Robertson, Olivia D. Neel -- Viroids in plants: shadows and footprints of a primitive RNA / J. S. Semancik, N. Duran-Vila -- Mutation, competition and selection as measured with small RNA molecules / Christof K. Biebricher -- The fidelity of cellular and viral polymerases and its manipulation for hypermutagenesis / Andreas Meyerhans, Jean-Pierre Vartanian -- Drift and conservatism in RNA virus evolution: are they adapting or merely changing? / Monica Sala, Simon Wain-Hobson -- Viral quasispecies and fitness variations / Esteban Domingo, Cristina Escarm�is, Luis Men�endez-Arias [et al.] -- The retroid agents: disease, function and evolution / Marcella A. McClure -- Dynamics of HIV pathogenesis and treatment / Dominik Wodarz, Martin A. Nowak -- Interplay between experiment and theory in development of a working model for HIV-1 population dynamics / I. M. Rouzine, J. M. Coffin -- Plant virus evolution: past, present and future / A. J. Gibbs, P. L. Keese, M. J. Gibbs [et al.] -- Genetics, pathogenesis and evolution of picornaviruses / Matthias Gromeier, Eckard Wimmer, Alexander E. Gorbalenya -- The impact of rapid evolution of the hepatitis viruses / Juan I. Esteban, Maria Martell, William F. Carman [et al.] -- Antigenic variation in influenza viruses / Robert G. Webster -- DNA virus contribution to host evolution / Luis P. Villarreal -- Parvovirus variation and evolution / Colin R. Parrish, Uwe Truyen -- The molecular evolutionary history of herpesviruses / Duncan J. McGeoch, Andrew J. Davison -- African swine fever virus: a missing link between poxviruses and iridoviruses? / Jos�e Salas, Mar�ia L. Salas, Eladio Vi?nuela.