Virus Taxonomy - VIIIth Report of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses

Hardback  1162 pp  ISBN 0122499514      £125.00

• The standard official ITCV reference for virus taxonomy and nomenclature, compiling data from 500 international experts
• Covers over 6000 recognized viruses, organized by family with diagrams of genome organization and virus replication cycle
• Provides data on the phylogenic relationships between viruses belonging to the same or different taxa
• Now includes information about the qualitative and quantitative relationships between virus sequences

This is the standard and definitive reference for virus taxonomy, generated by the ICTV approximately every 3 years. The VIII ICTV Virus Taxonomy Report provides information on 3 orders of viruses, 73 families, 9 subfamilies, 287 genera and 1938 virus species, illustrated by more than 429 pictures and diagrams, most of them in color.

Of interest to research level virologists, microbiologists, molecular biologists, infectious disease specialists and those in the pharma sector working on antivirals

Contents

Preface

Part I: Introduction to Universal Virus Taxonomy

Part II: The Viruses

• A Glossary of Abbreviations and Terms
• Taxa Listed by Nucleic Acid and Size of the Genome
• The Virosphere 2004
• The Virus Diagrams
• The Virus Particle Structures
• The Order of Presentation of the Viruses
• The Double Stranded DNA Viruses
• The Single Stranded DNA Viruses
• The DNA and RNA Reverse Transcribing Viruses
• The Double Stranded RNA Viruses
• The Negative Sense Single Stranded RNA Viruses
• The Positive Sense Single Stranded RNA Viruses
• The Unassigned Viruses
• The Subviral Agents
• Viroids
• Satellites
• Vertebrate Prions
• Fungal Prions

Part III: The International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses

• Officers and Members of the ICTV, 1999-2002
• The Statutes of the ICTV, 1998
• The Code of Virus Classification and Nomenclature, 1998

Part IV: Indexes

• Virus Index 1
• Taxonomic Index