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Molecular Evolution of Viruses — Past and Present

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Editors:
  1. Yechiel Becker

    1. Department of Molecular Virology, The Hebrew University, Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-iv
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  2. A Short Introduction to the Origin and Molecular Evolution of Viruses

    1. A Short Introduction to the Origin and Molecular Evolution of Viruses

      • Yechiel Becker
      Pages 1-5

  3. Role of Retrons, Retroelements, and Reverse Transcription in the Evolution of Retroviruses and in Eukaryotic Genome Plasticity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7
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    2. Structure, Function, and Evolution of Bacterial Reverse Transcriptase

      • Sumiko Inouye, Masayori Inouye
      Pages 9-22

    3. Bacterial Reverse Transcriptase and msDNA

      • Scott A. Rice, Bert C. Lampson
      Pages 23-32

    4. Retroelements: Propagation and Adaptation

      • Roger Hull, Simon N. Covey
      Pages 33-46

    5. Origin and Evolution of Viroids and Viroid-like Satellite RNAs

      • Theodor O. Diener
      Pages 47-59

    6. Evolution and Biological Significance of Human Retroelements

      • Christine Leib-Mösch, Wolfgang Seifarth
      Pages 61-73

    7. Endogenous env Elements: Partners in Generation of Pathogenic Feline Leukemia Viruses

      • Pradip Roy-Burman
      Pages 75-89

    8. Reverse Transcriptase: Mediator of Genomic Plasticity

      • Jürgen Brosius, Henri Tiedge
      Pages 91-107

  4. Molecular Processes Involved in the Evolution of RNA and DNA Viruses

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 109-109
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    2. Analysis of the Phylogenetic Placement of Different Spumaretroviral Genes Reveals Complex Pattern of Foamy Virus Evolution

      • Holger Warnat Dias, Mordechai Aboud, Rolf M. Flügel
      Pages 111-118

    3. Retrovirus and Filovirus “Immunosuppressive Motif” and the Evolution of Virus Pathogenicity in HIV-1, HIV-2, and Ebola Viruses

      • Yechiel Becker
      Pages 119-123

    4. Molecular Evolution of Aphthoviruses

      • Esteban Domingo, Mauricio G. Mateu, Cristina Escarmis, Encarnacion Martinez-Salas, David Andreu, Ernest Giralt et al.
      Pages 125-135

    5. Molecular Evolution of Influenza Viruses

      • Christoph Scholtissek
      Pages 137-143

    6. Analysis of Matrix Protein Gene Nucleotide Sequence Diversity Among Newcastle Disease Virus Isolates Demonstrates that Recent Disease Outbreaks Are Caused by Viruses of Psittacine Origin

      • Bruce S. Seal
      Pages 145-152

    7. Molecular Epidemiology and Evolution of Mosquito-Borne Flaviviruses and Alphaviruses Enzootic in Australia

      • John S. Mackenzie, Michael Poidinger, Michael D. Lindsay, Roy A. Hall, Leanne M. Sammels
      Pages 153-165

    8. The Evolution of Small DNA Viruses of Eukaryotes: Past and Present Considerations

      • F. F. Shadan, Luis P. Villarreal
      Pages 167-185

    9. Retrotransposition and Herpesvirus Evolution

      • Peter Brunovskis, Hsing-Jien Kung
      Pages 187-198

    10. Evolution of Viral DNA-Dependent RNA Polymerases

      • Kai-Christian Sonntag, Gholamreza Darai
      Pages 199-212
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About this book

The studies presented in this special issue of VIRUS GENES provide information on the two aspects of virus evolution: the ancient evolution of viruses from the time prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells evolved, and the ongoing process of the current molecular evolution of viruses. The studies of many scientists collected in this issue and many more that were published in other scientific journals provide insight into the molecular evolution of viruses as one of nature's mysteries. The use of computer porograms to study the nucleotide sequences of viral genomes, the amino acid compositions of proteins coded by viral genomes, and searches for regulatory mechanisms in viral nucleic acid replication, as well as identities of motifs in proteins of viruses from all families, will provide additional information on the subject. In future issues that will be devoted to this subject, the origin and evolution of RNA and DNA viruses will be further investigated.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Molecular Virology, The Hebrew University, Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel

    Yechiel Becker

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Molecular Evolution of Viruses — Past and Present

  • Editors: Yechiel Becker

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1407-3

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Kluwer Academic Publishers 1996

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-9739-7Published: 30 June 1996

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4612-8610-3Published: 27 September 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4613-1407-3Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IV, 232

  • Topics: Virology, Medical Microbiology

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