Overview

This book focuses on those virus families that are found primarily or exclusively in insects, covering all major families of insect-selective viruses except for the baculoviruses which were described in a previous volume of The Viruses series. The topics include: the large DNA viruses; the small DNA densoviruses; the RNA viruses; and, the arbovirus expression systems and their potential employment in the future. Ninety-eight illustrations supplement the text.

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Author:   Lois K. Miller ,  Andrew Ball
Publisher:   Kluwer Academic Publishers Group
Imprint:   Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers
Weight:   1.000kg
ISBN:  

9780306458811

ISBN 10:   0306458810
Pages:   434
Publication Date:   August 1998
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Entomopoxviruses; L.A. King, et al. Invertebrate Iridescent Viruses; T. Williams. Nudiviruses; J.P. Burand. The Ascoviruses; L.K. Miller. Polydnaviruses; B.A. Webb. Biological and Molecular Properties of Densoviruses and Their Use in Protein Expression and Biological Control; M. Bergoin, P. Tijssen. Structural Studies of Nodaviruses and Tetraviruses; J.E. Johnson, V. Reddy. Nodaviruses of Insects; L.A. Ball, K.L. Johnson. Tetraviruses; K.H.J. Gordon, T.N. Hanzlik. The Picornalike Viruses of Insects; P.D. Christian, P.D. Scotti. Cypoviruses; S. Belloncik, H. Mori. RNA Virus Expression Systems; K. Olson, et al. Index.

Reviews

... represents an excellent, comprehensive reference that occupies a previously unfilled niche in the insect pathology literature. It is a great resource for all researchers who study insect viruses. It is also an extremely valuable source of informatio n for those investigators interested in the use of insect viruses for biological control of insect pests.' BioScience, 50: 4 (2000) The Insect Viruses belongs on the shelves of insect pathologists, especially insect virologists, right next to The Baculoviruses. This book will also be useful to researchers in other fields who will appreciate the diversity and utility of these viruses: virologists and students of virology, particularly those interested in virus evolution or structure, entomologists interested in biological control of insects, insect immunity or diseases carried by insect vectors, and biotechnologists immediately spring to mind.' Trends in Microbiology, 7: 11 (1999)

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