The Insect Viruses (The Viruses) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0306458810 ISBN 13: 9780306458811

Publisher: Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers, 1998

Synopsis

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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Review

... 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)

Edition details

• Publisher: Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0306458810
• ISBN 13: 9780306458811
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 434
• Editor: Miller Lois K., Ball Andrew