Planet of Viruses

Name: Planet of Viruses
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ISBN: 9780226983363

ISBN-10: 0226983366

ISBN-13: 9780226983363

Edition: 2012

Authors: Carl Zimmer

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Viruses are the smallest living things known to science, yet they hold the entire planet in their sway. We are most familiar with the viruses that give us colds or the flu, but viruses also cause a vast range of other diseases, including one disorder that makes people sprout branch-like growths as if they were trees. Viruses have been a part of our lives for so long, in fact, thatweare actually part virus: the human genome contains more DNA from viruses than our own genes. Meanwhile, scientists are discovering viruses everywhere they look: in the soil, in the ocean, even in caves miles underground. This fascinating book explores the hidden world of viruses—a world that we all…

Book details

List price: $12.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 4/30/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 122
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.484

Carl Zimmer writes the monthly essay in the US magazine Natural History, having inherited this position from Stephen Jay Gould.



Foreword



Introduction "A Contagious Living Fluid": Tobacco Mosaic Virus


Old Companions


The Uncommon Cold Rhinovirus


Looking Down from the Stars Influenza Virus


Rabbits with Horns Human Papillomavirus


Everywhere, In All Things


The Enemy of Our Enemy Bacteriophages


The Infected Ocean Marine Phages


Our Inner Parasites 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 and Ebola


The Long Goodbye


Smallpox


Epilogue: The Alien in the Watercooler: Mimivirus


Acknowledgments


Selected references


Credits


Index