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Genetics and evolution of infectious diseases / edited by Michel Tibayrenc.

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Genetics and Evolution of Infectious Diseases, Third Edition discusses the evolving field of infectious diseases and their continued impact on the health of populations, especially in resource-limited areas of the world where they must confront the dual burden of death and disability due to infectio...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ScienceDirect)
Other Authors: Tibayrenc, Michel (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier, [2024]
Edition:Third edition.
Subjects:
Communicable diseases > Genetic aspects.
Disease susceptibility > Genetic aspects.
Infection > Genetic aspects.
Table of Contents:
  • 1
  • Methodological/Generalist Chapters
  • 1
  • A New Official Definition of Virus Species Has Led to a Controversial Linnaean Latinized Binomial Format of Vir ...
  • 1. The Nature of Virus Classification
  • 2. The Late Acceptance of the Species Concept in Virus Classification
  • 3. Properties Used for Demarcating New Virus Species Are Not the Same as the Diagnostic Properties Used for Identifying the Me ...
  • 4. Popular Anglicized Non-Latinized Virus Species Names Were Subsequently Abandoned
  • 5. The ICTV Introduced Names of Virus Species that Correspond to the Italicized Version of the Virus Name, Thereby Creating Un ...
  • 6. The New ICTV Definition of Virus Species Is at Odds with the Definition of Species in Other Biological Classifications
  • 7. Adrian Gibbs Questions the Merits of a New ICTV Latinized Binomial Nomenclature for Virus Species Associated with Metagenom ...
  • 8. Ontology and Epistemology of Viruses and Living Organisms
  • References
  • 2
  • A Completionist Approach to Discovering and Characterizing Bacterial Diversity
  • 1. Introduction-Toward a Completionist Bacterial Systematics
  • 2. Genomes Enable Completionist Systematics at the Species Level
  • 3. The Ecological Breadth of Recognized Species Taxa
  • 4. Sexual Isolation and Ecological Divergence in the Origins of Species-like Lineages That can Coexist Indefinitely
  • 5. How Modes of Speciation Affect the Correspondence Between Sequence Clusters and Ecotypes
  • 6. Genomes Enable Completionist Systematics at the Ecotype Level
  • 7. Rapprochement Between Theory-based and Tradition-based Systematics of Bacteria
  • Acknowledgments
  • References
  • 3
  • Population Structure of Pathogenic Bacteria
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Recombination and Selection in Bacterial Populations
  • 2.1 Emergence and Persistence of Sequence Clusters
  • 2.2 Heterogeneity in Recombination
  • 2.3 The Structure of the Pan-genome of Species and Populations
  • 2.4 Negative Frequency-Dependent Selection
  • 3. Bacterial Population Structure Within and Between Hosts
  • 3.1 Within-host Diversity and Bottlenecks Shape Transmission Dynamics
  • 3.2 Between-host Evolution and Impact on Population Structure
  • 4. Geography and Bacterial Population Structure
  • 4.1 Bacterial Phylogeography and Migration Between Populations
  • 4.2 Range Expansion as a Model of Geographic Spread
  • 5. Conclusions
  • Acknowledgments
  • References
  • 4
  • Diverse Strategies and Evolutionary Histories of Fungal Pathogens
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. A Brief Overview of Fungal Pathogens
  • 2.1 Plant Pathogens
  • 2.2 Animal Pathogens
  • 3. Selected Examples of Human Pathogens
  • 3.1 Major Pathogens: Candida, Cryptococcus, Aspergillus

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