Comprehensive virology / 9, Regulation and genetics : genetics of animal viruses

The time seems ripe for a critical compendum 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 numbering, 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 22 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 invalua­ ble reference and sourcebook for researchers and students at all levels. This series is designed as a continuum that can be entered anywhere, but which also provides a logical progression of developing facts and integrated concepts. Front Matter....Pages i-xx Genetics of Polyoma Virus and Simian Virus 40....Pages 1-26 Genetics of Adenoviruses....Pages 27-88 Genetics of Herpesviruses....Pages 89-131 Genetics of Picornaviruses....Pages 133-207 Genetics of Togaviruses....Pages 209-238 Genetics of Rhabdoviruses....Pages 239-289 Genetics of Reoviruses....Pages 291-340 Genetics of RNA Tumor Viruses....Pages 341-455 Genetics and Paragenetic Phenomena of Paramyxoviruses....Pages 457-533 Genetics of Orthomyxoviruses....Pages 535-598 Back Matter....Pages 599-610