Newly Characterized Protist and Invertebrate Viruses Softcover Repri Edition Contributor(s): Fraenkel-Conrat, Heinz (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1468427261 ISBN-13: 9781468427264 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2012 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Medical | Microbiology - Medical | Infectious Diseases |
Dewey: 616.904 |
Series: Comprehensive Virology |
Physical Information: 0.75" H x 7" W x 10" (1.39 lbs) 344 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: The time seems ripe for a critical compendium of that segment of the biological universe we call viruses. Virology, as a science, having passed only recently through its descriptive phase of naming and num- bering, has probably reached that stage at which relatively few new- truly new-viruses will be discovered. Triggered by the intellectual probes and techniques of molecular biology, genetics, biochemical cytology, and high resolution microscopy and spectroscopy, the field has experienced a genuine information explosion. Few serious attempts have been made to chronicle these events. This comprehensive series, which will comprise some 6000 pages in a total of about 18 volumes, represents a commitment by a large group of active investigators to analyze, digest, and expostulate on the great mass of data relating to viruses, much of which is now amorphous and disjointed, and scattered throughout a wide literature. In this way, we hope to place the entire field in perspective, and to develop an invalu- able reference and sourcebook for researchers and students at all levels. This series i designed as a continuum that can be entered anywhere, but which also provides a logical progression of developing facts and integrated concepts. |