Advances in Virus Research: Viruses and Climate Change

✍ Scribed by Marilyn J. Roossinck

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 206
• Series: Advances in Virus Research, 114
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Viruses and Climate Change, Volume 114 in the Advances in Virus Research series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on carbon-cycle and vector-borne viruses. Chapters in this release cover Viruses in the carbon cycle and the impacts on climate change and Climate change and mosquito-borne virus transmission.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Cover
Viruses and Climate Change
Copyright
Contents
Contributors
Preface
Chapter One: Challenges and opportunities for plant viruses under a climate change scenario
1. Introduction
2. Climate change and plant virus pathogenicity
3. Climate change and plant virus transmission
3.1. Horizontal transmission
3.1.1. Aphids
3.1.2. Whiteflies
3.1.3. Other vectors
3.1.4. Transmission by contact
3.2. Vertical transmission
4. Climate change and plant virus ecology
4.1. Host and geographic range
4.2. Mixed infections
5. Climate change and plant virus evolution
6. Climate change and management of plant virus diseases
6.1. Detection and diagnosis
6.2. Chemical and biological control of vectors
6.3. Genetic resistance and tolerance
6.4. Other methods
7. Concluding remarks and future perspectives
Acknowledgments
References
Chapter Two: Marine viruses and climate change: Virioplankton, the carbon cycle, and our future ocean
1. Introduction
2. Climate change effects on the global ocean
2.1. Ocean temperature
2.2. Ocean circulation
2.3. Ocean stratification
2.4. Ocean acidification
3. Key virus–host players in the marine carbon cycle
3.1. Viral interactions in three bacterioplankton groups critical in the oceanic carbon cycle
3.1.1. Pelagiphages
3.1.2. Roseophages
3.1.3. Cyanophages
3.2. Viral interactions in phytoplankton groups critical in the oceanic carbon cycle
3.2.1. Viruses of haptophytes—Coccolithophores and Phaeocystis
3.2.2. Viruses infecting unicellular chlorophytesMicromonas and Ostreococcus
3.2.3. Diatom viruses
3.2.4. Dinoflagellate viruses
4. Modern approaches to investigating virus–host dynamics in a changing climate
4.1. Using the meta-omics toolbox for understanding virioplankton carbon cycle dynamics
4.2. Incorporating viral processes into global marine carbon cycling models
5. Overall takeaways and conclusions
Acknowledgments
References
Chapter Three: West Nile virus and climate change
1. Introduction
2. Temperature, viral fitness and vector competence for West Nile virus
2.1. Population and species-specific relationships between temperature and vector competence
2.2. Mosquito genetics, immunity and climate
2.3. Mosquito microbiome and climate
2.4. Additional considerations for climate and vector competence
3. Mosquito physiology and climate
3.1. Additional considerations with climate and Culex fitness
3.2. Trait-based models for West Nile virus and temperature
4. Epidemiological models of West Nile virus and climate
4.1. Temperature and West Nile virus
4.1.1. Winter
4.1.2. Spring
4.1.3. Summer
4.1.4. Fall
4.2. The influence of precipitation, humidity, and soil moisture on West Nile virus
4.3. Vector and host distribution
5. The influence of temperature on West Nile virus diversity and evolution
6. Concluding remarks
References
Further reading
Back Cover