Category: Science Publisher: ARS
ISBN-10: B00071UTOE
Pages: 100
The story of the discovery of the first known viroid, a bit of naked RNA that can cause plant diseases and is similar in some ways to prions in animals.
Excerpt
A virus is difficult to imagine. It doesn't grow by cell division as do living things. It has no metabolism. It can't move by itself. But because of the deadly diseases viruses can cause, scientists suspected their existence more than 50 years before they actually found one. ...
... But, unlike finding the long-sought virus, discovery of the even simpler viroid was not supposed to happen.
The symbiotic pattern of evolution is everywhere and allows us a very different and fascinating window into the way symbiotic viruses work, since all viruses are symbiotic, including those involved in our human reproduction.
Where do viruses, such as Ebola and HIV, come from and why they are so aggressive? This book changed tenets of evolutionary virology, developing the concepts of aggressive symbiosis and plague culling, which explain much of the horror of plague virus
Where do viruses, such as Ebola and HIV, come from and why they are so aggressive? This book changed tenets of evolutionary virology, developing the concepts of aggressive symbiosis and plague culling, which explain much of the horror of plague virus
