A Planet of Viruses
Second Edition
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INTRODUCTION
“A Contagious Living Fluid”
Tobacco Mosaic Virus and the Discovery of the Virosphere
OLD COMPANIONS
The Uncommon Cold
How Rhinoviruses Gently Conquered the World
Looking Down from the Stars
Influenza’s Never-Ending Reinvention
Rabbits with Horns
Human Papillomavirus and Infectious Cancer
EVERYWHERE, IN ALL THINGS
The Enemy of Our Enemy
Bacteriophages as Viral Medicine
The Infected Ocean
How Marine Phages Rule the Sea
Our Inner Parasites
Endogenous Retroviruses and Our Virus-Riddled Genomes
THE VIRAL FUTURE
The Young Scourge
Human Immunodeficiency Virus and the Animal Origins of Diseases
Becoming an American
The Globalization of West Nile Virus
Predicting the Next Plague
Ebola Virus and the Many Others Like It
The Long Goodbye
The Delayed Oblivion of Smallpox
EPILOGUE
The Alien in the Water Cooler
Giant Viruses and the Definition of Life
Acknowledgments
Selected References
Credits
Index
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Biological Sciences: Evolutionary Biology | Microbiology | Natural History | Physiology, Biomechanics, and Morphology
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