Quantitative Viral Ecology : Dynamics of Viruses and Their Microbial Hosts / Joshua S. Weitz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weitz, Joshua S., author.

Series:

Monographs in population biology ; Viruses |x Ecology.55.

Monographs in Population Biology ; 73

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Viruses--Ecology.

Viruses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (339 p.)

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

When we think about viruses we tend to consider ones that afflict humans-such as those that cause influenza, HIV, and Ebola. Yet, vastly more viruses infect single-celled microbes. Diverse and abundant, microbes and the viruses that infect them are found in oceans, lakes, plants, soil, and animal-associated microbiomes. Taking a vital look at the "microscopic" mode of disease dynamics, Quantitative Viral Ecology establishes a theoretical foundation from which to model and predict the ecological and evolutionary dynamics that result from the interaction between viruses and their microbial hosts.Joshua Weitz addresses three major questions: What are viruses of microbes and what do they do to their hosts? How do interactions of a single virus-host pair affect the number and traits of hosts and virus populations? How do virus-host dynamics emerge in natural environments when interactions take place between many viruses and many hosts? Emphasizing how theory and models can provide answers, Weitz offers a cohesive framework for tackling new challenges in the study of viruses and microbes and how they are connected to ecological processes-from the laboratory to the Earth system.Quantitative Viral Ecology is an innovative exploration of the influence of viruses in our complex natural world.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

PART I. VIROLOGY: AN ECOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE

CHAPTER ONE. What Is a Virus?

CHAPTER TWO. Viral Life History Traits

PART II. POPULATION AND EVOLUTIONARY DYNAMICS OF VIRUSES AND THEIR MICROBIAL HOSTS

CHAPTER THREE. Population Dynamics of Viruses and Microbes

CHAPTER FOUR. Evolutionary Dynamics of Viruses or Microbes, but Not Both

CHAPTER FIVE. Coevolutionary Dynamics of Viruses and Microbes

PART III. VIRAL ECOLOGY IN THE OCEANS: A MODEL SYSTEM FOR MEASUREMENT AND INFERENCE

CHAPTER SIX. Ocean Viruses: On Their Abundance, Diversity, and Target Hosts

CHAPTER SEVEN. Virus-Host Dynamics in a Complex Milieu

CHAPTER EIGHT. The Future of Quantitative Viral Ecology

TECHNICAL APPENDIXES

APPENDIX A. Viral Life History Traits

APPENDIX B. Population Dynamics of Viruses and Microbes

APPENDIX C. Evolutionary Dynamics of Viruses or Microbes, but Not Both

APPENDIX D. Ocean Viruses: On Their Abundance, Diversity, and Target Hosts

APPENDIX E. Virus-Host Dynamics in a Complex Milieu

Bibliography

Index

Backmatter

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

9781400873968

1400873967

OCLC:

974634758