A planet of viruses /

This book explores the hidden world of viruses -a world that each of us inhabits. Here Carl Zimmer, popular science writer and author of Discover magazine's award-winning blog The Loom, presents the latest research on how viruses hold sway over our lives and our biosphere, how viruses helped gi...

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Main Author: Zimmer, Carl, 1966-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, [2011]
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505 0 |a "A contagious living fluid" : tobacco mosaic virus -- Old companions -- The uncommon cold: rhinovirus -- Looking down from the stars : influenza virus -- Rabbits with horns : papillomavirus -- Everywhere, in all things -- The enemy of our enemy : bacteriophages -- Oceans of viruses : marine phages -- The infected genome : endogenous retroviruses -- The viral future -- The young scourge : human immunodeficiency virus -- Becoming an American : West Nile virus -- Predicting the next plague : severe acute respiratory syndrome -- The long goodbye : smallpox -- The alien in the watercooler : mimivirus. 
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