5 edition of Insect viruses found in the catalog.
Insect viruses
Published
2006
by Academic Press, an imprint of Elsevier in Amsterdam, Boston
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Written in
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
| Statement | edited by Bryony C. Bonning. |
| Series | Advances in virus research -- v. 68 |
| Contributions | Bonning, Byrony C. |
| The Physical Object | |
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| Pagination | xiv, 532 p. ; [22] p. of plates : |
| Number of Pages | 532 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL21871878M |
| ISBN 10 | 0120398680 |
| ISBN 10 | 9780120398683 |
Admittedly, insects transmit viruses that cause illness in humans, but the insect in such cases is usually unaffected. This book includes research on such viruses affecting humans. Also included in this book are the ways to recognize insect viruses and their use in pest control. Viruses were already infecting organisms some million years ago, suggests a new study on what may be the oldest date yet for the emergence of an insect-infecting virus.
Insect Media analyzes how insect forms of social organization—swarms, hives, webs, and distributed intelligence—have been used to structure modern media technologies and the network society. Through close engagement with the pioneering work of insect ethologists, posthumanist philosophers, media theorists, and contemporary filmmakers and artists, Jussi Parikka . The Insect Viruses belongs on the shelves of insect pathologists, especially insect virologists, right next to The 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 Cited by: 1.
Invertebrates are very common vectors of disease. A vector is an organism which spreads disease from one host to another. Invertebrates spread bacterial, viral and protozoan pathogens by two main mechanisms. Either via their bite, as in the case of malaria spread by mosquitoes, or via their faeces, as in the case of Chagas' Disease spread by. Science writer David Quammen says the new coronavirus is the latest example of the way pathogens are migrating from animals to humans with increasing frequency — and sometimes deadly consequences.
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The last chapter deals with the use of insect viruses in the biological control of insect pests. This book is a valuable source of information for entomologists, insect virologists, virologists in other fields, microbiologists, and others interested in insect virology.
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 Manufacturer: Springer.
This work focuses on those insect virus families 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. Included are the established families of insect viruses, the newly recognized ascovirus family, and the nudiviruses, which probably represent a.
Organized into six parts with a total of 23 chapters, this book describes the taxonomy, nomenclature, identification, physical, biological, as well as chemical characteristics, replication, and pathology of insect viruses. This reference material also explores the dispersal, stability, and utilization of insect viruses as biological control agents.
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 Cited by: Insect Virology focuses on viruses affecting insects, from the Tipula and Sericesthis iridescent viruses to the acute and chronic bee paralysis viruses and sacbrood virus.
The book explores the symptomatology and pathology of virus diseases in insects; the isolation and purification of the viruses as well as their morphology and chemistry; and Book Edition: 1.
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.
Written by internationally renowned insect virologists, chapters cover all of the major groups of insect pathogenic viruses and suggest future directions for research.
The book is divided into three parts: 1) DNA viruses 2) RNA viruses and 3) current hot-topics in insect virology. Virus groups covered include: Ascoviruses, Baculoviruses, Densoviruses, Entomopoxviruses. Insect virus transmission: Different routes to persistence.
progress has been made in the detection of new viruses and in probing the molecular basis of. Insect microbiology an account of the microbes associated with insects and ticks by Steinhaus, Edward Arthur and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at Viruses have a variety of interactions with insect hosts.
The insect may be the primary host of the virus or may act as a vector to transmit viruses to alternative plant or animal hosts.
Papers in the Insect Virus section of Viruses span all groups of viruses that infect insect hosts. Manuscripts that represent original and significant. PLANT VIRUSES AND INSECTS Wayne B. Hunter U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service U.S.
Horticultural Research Laboratory Ft. Pierce, Florida, USA The principal families of insect vectors which cause the most damage to agricultural crops through the spread of plant diseases are in the order Hemiptera, and include the aphids,File Size: KB. Inclusion-type insect viruses / Gordon R.
Stairs --Non-inclusion virus diseases of invertebrates / C. Vago --Arboviruses, the arthropod-borne animal viruses / Roy W. Chamberlain --The sigma virus infection of drosophila melanogaster / Robert Seecof --Plant pathogenic viruses in insects / Karl Maramorosch --A review of the use of insect tissue.
There are over a million different species of insects, and individually they 8 outnumber humans by more than 10 to 1. Moreover, some insects live in close association with both plants and higher animals and naturally exchange viruses with them.
It has even been speculated that viruses in general may have radiated through the plant and animal kingdoms from common insect origins. The Insect Viruses. [Lois K Miller; L Andrew Ball] -- 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.
Insect viruses provide a rare opportunity to get acquainted with the work and methods of investigators in such related and yet distant fields. Following the symposium, a decision was made to publish the papers in a single volume, extending the contents to provide a complete and scholarly review of each subject.
This is an essential guidebook, providing a comprehensive overview of insect viruses and pest management. Part One of this volume explores the rationale behind the employment of insect pathogenic viruses in pest control and documents the assessment of biological activity, the ecology of baculoviruses, control strategies, virus production and formulation, and the conduct.
Insect pollinators are essential to the life cycle of many flowering plant species on which most organisms, including humans, are at least partly dependent; without them, the terrestrial portion of the biosphere would be devastated. Many insects are considered ecologically beneficial as predators and a few provide direct economic : Pancrustacea.
Taxonomically, insect viruses can be classified into 18 different virus families, including 6 families of DNA viruses and 12 families/groups of RNA viruses (Hunter-Fujita et al., ; Regenmortel.
Purchase Insect Viruses, Volume 68 - 1st Edition. Print Book & E-Book. ISBNBook Edition: 1. Insect viruses have been the subject of basic research in virology and molecular biology and have been evaluated and deployed as safe, environmentally friendly means of controlling insect pests.
The largest and most studied group of insect viruses, the baculoviruses, has been developed into expression vectors that serve as invaluable tools for.Systematic Veterinary Virology. This note explains the following topics: structure, classification, repliation and viral interference, Group V viruses, Negative sense single stranded RNA viruses, Morbilli virus, Orthomyxo viruses, Equine flu, nature of the virus, disease and its pathogenesis, diagnosis and various lab tests, vaccines, Zoonotic potential, Impacts of swine flu, Negative .UNESCO – EOLSS SAMPLE CHAPTERS TROPICAL BIOLOGY AND CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT - Vol.
VII - Insect Viruses Diversity, Biology, and Use as Bioinsecticides - Jorge E. Ibarra and M. Cristina Del Rincón-Castro ©Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS) viral group. Some viruses are released by inverted pinocytosis, which engulfs the viral.
