Animal virology

by David Baltimore

Animal Virology consists of papers presented in a meeting which considered broad issues and advances in animal virology and tumor viruses. This book is divided into nine parts, representing the nine sessions of the meeting. Five of the nine sections deal particularly with viruses known to be oncogenic in animals, and one of these covers explicitly human oncornaviruses. The other four sections describe the processes common to all replication, protein synthesis, and persistence, wherein emphasis is given to negative strand viruses and plant viruses.

824 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1976

About the author

For research on the genetics of tumor-causing viruses and especially for identifying reverse transcriptase, American microbiologist David Baltimore shared a Nobel Prize of 1975.

Swathmore college granted bachelor of arts in 1960, and Rockefeller university granted Philosophiae Doctor in biological chemistry in 1964.

He won as a laureate in medicine with Howard Martin Temin and Renato Dulbecco "for their discoveries concerning the interaction between tumor viruses and the genetic material of the cell."

He served as president from 1997 to 2006 and as distinguished Robert Andrews Millikan professor at the California Institute of Technology.
With David S. Tatel, judge, he co-chairs the committee on technology and law in the national academies of sciences, engineering, and medicine.