Virology: Principles and Applications by John Carter, Venetia Saunders

By John Carter, Venetia Saunders

Virology: rules and functions is a transparent and available advent to this fast-moving box, supplying a complete source allowing the reader to appreciate the most important strategies surrounding this fascinating topic. The reader is brought to the foundations of virus constitution, replication and genetics, in addition to the theories in the back of the origins of viruses and the way they're evolving. Taking a latest method of the topic, the relevance of virology to daily life is obviously emphasised and discussions of rising viruses, melanoma, vaccines, anti-viral medicines and gene vectors are incorporated. to reinforce pupil figuring out, studying results, resources of extra info and ?at-a-glance? sections are built-in into in each one bankruptcy, reinforcing key concepts.

Illustrated in complete colour all through, broad use is made from transparent diagrams that come with commonplace colour coding for various kinds of molecule, permitting scholars to know tricky recommendations and care for the extent of aspect within the subject.

An helpful textual content for college students of biology, microbiology, molecular biology and biomedical sciences taking classes in virology. The ebook is additionally an invaluable source for MSc point scholars trying to find an obtainable creation to the subject.

a student-friendly advent to the fast-moving topic of virology
introduces the relevance of virology to the trendy global together with newest advancements within the field
seems at topical viruses similar to HIV and influenza virus
illustrated in complete colour all through with diagrams categorised in actual fact to augment scholar understanding
offers a complete Virologists? Vocabulary
The better half site www.wiley.com/go/carter offers self-assessment questions and solutions, extra reference resources and hyperlinks to varied virology sites

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The first one-step growth curves produced were for phages, but they have since been produced for other viruses. 18 One-step growth curve. The eclipse period is the period during which no intracellular infectious virus can be recovered; infectious nucleic acid might be recoverable in some cases. The burst size is the average yield of infectious virus per cell. For a period (the eclipse period), the titre of infective virus remains constant. During the eclipse period the virus is replicating, but no virus has been released from infected cells, so each infected cell gives rise to one plaque.

Generally, virus genomes are much smaller than cell genomes and the question arises as to how viruses encode all their requirements in a small genome. Viruses achieve this in a number of ways. 6 VIRUSES AND THEIR IMPORTANCE • Viruses use host cell proteins. The genomes of large viruses duplicate some of the functions of the host cell, but the small viruses rely very heavily on functions of the host cell. There is, however, one function that an RNA virus must encode, no matter how small its genome.

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