This book provides a comprehensive look at the field of plant virus evolution. It is the first book ever published on the topic. Individual chapters, written by experts in the field, cover plant virus ecology, emerging viruses, plant viruses that integrate into the host genome, population biology, evolutionary mechanisms and appropriate methods for analysis. It covers RNA viruses, DNA viruses, pararetroviruses and viroids, and presents a number of thought-provoking ideas.

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Inhaltsangabe1 Questions and Concepts in Plant Virus Evolution: a Historical Perspective.- 2 Community Ecology of Plant Viruses.- 3 Emerging Plant Viruses: a Diversity of Mechanisms and Opportunities.- 4 Evolution of Integrated Plant Viruses.- 5 Viroids.- 6 Virus Populations, Mutation Rates and Frequencies.- 7 Genetic Bottlenecks.- 8 Recombination in Plant RNA Viruses.- 9 Symbiosis, Mutualism and Symbiogenesis.- 10 Methods for Analyzing Viral Evolution.- 11 Virus Evolution and Taxonomy.

1 Questions and Concepts in Plant Virus Evolution: a Historical Perspective.- 2 Community Ecology of Plant Viruses.- 3 Emerging Plant Viruses: a Diversity of Mechanisms and Opportunities.- 4 Evolution of Integrated Plant Viruses.- 5 Viroids.- 6 Virus Populations, Mutation Rates and Frequencies.- 7 Genetic Bottlenecks.- 8 Recombination in Plant RNA Viruses.- 9 Symbiosis, Mutualism and Symbiogenesis.- 10 Methods for Analyzing Viral Evolution.- 11 Virus Evolution and Taxonomy.