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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Chicago ; London :
University of Chicago Press,
[2011]
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Table of Contents:
- "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.