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1. Virus: An Illustrated Guide to 101 Incredible Microbes
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The textbook, Priciples of Virology! They’re on the fourth edition now, but you can find used previous editions for like $10.
Also, on iTunesU, Columbia University has posted their introductory Virology course. (It’s not like a regular intro to microbio, this is 100% Viruses ^and ^prions.
There are 25 lectures, and they’re pretty great!
Also, also... this book!!
McGraw hill has a microbiology app, that quizzes you on microbiology and helps you memorize concepts. If you listen to the lectures, you’ll get about 95% of their virology questions right off the bat, but it’ll also help you remember them, and fill in some general microbiology.
I hope you enjoy this stuff!
(DM me if you want more resources or want to be put in touch with some real-life virologists!)
Our lab works with some of these guys!
Dating viruses can be done via sequence divergence measures or comparing modern host species. Lets say we have a virus that's in humans but not in chimp, orangutans, or gorillas, it's fairly safe to say it must be younger than our last common ancestor with those groups.
They inform our understanding of evolution in a lot of ways that haven't been fully taken advantage of yet. There have been studies where their effect on host gene transcription was measured that suggest they can contribute to species-specific patterns. They can force a speciation event if the portion of the population with the new virus is no longer able to reproduce with the population at large. They make major contributions to host genome diversity because they facilitate non-homologous recombination and chromosomal fusion and fission events in the host.
Here's some good reading on the web:
http://bioinformatics.cvr.ac.uk/paleovirology/index.html
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1024455415443
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=3814592&tool=pmcentrez&rendertype=abstract
My advisor always recommends this book to people, and I agree http://www.amazon.ca/Virolution-Frank-Ryan/dp/0007315120
Planet of viruses by Carl Zimmer is a very accessible (and short) book on virus factoids link. It's actually based on his blog so it's more of a beginner text. One big drawback is there's a ton of spelling errors in it for some reason.
Another great one about the history of viruses is called To Catch a Virus. It really reads more like a history text but is one of the most thorough ones i've stumbled across link