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Infectious Disease and Host-Pathogen Evolution.
Title:
Infectious Disease and Host-Pathogen Evolution.
Author:
Dronamraju, Krishna R.
ISBN:
9780511193682
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (394 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- INFECTIOUS DISEASES -- MALARIA -- GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY CONSIDERATIONS -- VIRULENCE -- FURTHER RESEARCH -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- PART ONE J. B. S. HALDANE -- ONE Haldane's Ideas in Biology with Special Reference to Disease and Evolution -- REFERENCES -- TWO J. B. S. Haldane and the Malaria Hypothesis -- THE MALARIA HYPOTHESIS -- INHERITED DISORDERS OF HEMOGLOBIN -- EARLY ATTEMPTS TO TEST THE MALARIA HYPOTHESIS -- RECENT INVESTIGATIONS OF THE MALARIA HYPOTHESIS -- HOW DO THE HEMOGLOBIN DISORDERS PROTECT AGAINST MALARIA INFECTION? -- EXTENDING THE MALARIA HYPOTHESIS -- BEYOND MALARIA -- EVOLUTIONARY IMPLICATIONS -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- PART TWO MALARIAL PARASITES -- THREE Evolutionary Genetics of Plasmodium falciparum, the Agent of Malignant Malaria -- GENETIC POLYMORPHISMS IN P. FALCIPARUM: RECENT GEOGRAPHIC EXPANSION OF MALIGNANT MALARIA -- NATURAL SELECTION AND THE EVOLUTION OF ANTIGENIC GENES -- REFERENCES -- FOUR Evolutionary Biology of Malarial Parasites -- INTRODUCTION -- MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETIC STUDIES ON PLASMODIUM -- POPULATION GENETIC STUDIES OF PLASMODIUM -- The Apical Membrane Antigen 1 (AMA-1) -- The Circumsporosoite Protein (CSP) -- The Merozoite Surface Protein 1 (MSP-1) -- MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES IN MALARIAL PARASITES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- FIVE G6PD Deficiency and Malarial Resistance in Humans: Insights from Evolutionary Genetic Analyses -- THE ROLE OF G6PD IN MALARIA RESISTANCE -- MOLECULAR SIGNATURES OF NATURAL SELECTION -- RFLP HAPLOTYPE ANALYSIS AT G6PD -- MICROSATELLITE HAPLOTYPE ANALYSIS AT G6PD -- EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY OF G6PD MICROSATELLITE HAPLOTYPES -- NUCLEOTIDE DIVERSITY AT G6PD -- IMPLICATIONS FOR THE ORIGINS OF MALARIAL RESISTANCE.

FUTURE DIRECTIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- SIX The Enigma of Plasmodium vivax Malaria and Erythrocyte Duffy Negativity -- INTRODUCTION -- HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE ON PLASMODIUM VIVAX -- Malaria Fever Therapy Trials -- Resistance to Plasmodium vivax -- Plasmodium vivax Malaria -- Distribution of P. vivax -- THE DUFFY BLOOD GROUP AND ITS MOLECULAR BIOLOGY -- Recognition of Duffy Blood Group Polymorphism - Serology -- Population Surveys - Distribution of Duffy Blood Group Polymorphism -- The Genetic Resistance Factor to P. vivax - The Duffy Blood Group -- Identification of the Duffy Gene: Molecular Biology -- Duffy Expression and Cell Biology -- P. vivax Duffy Binding Protein -- THE ASCENT OF P. VIVAX MALARIA: ORIGINS AND EVOLUTION OF DUFFY NEGATIVITY -- Origin of the Human Malarial Parasite, P. vivax -- Origins of Duffy Negativity -- Emergence and Evolution of FY A…in P. vivax-Endemic Regions of Papua New Guinea -- CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- PART THREE OTHER PARASITES -- SEVEN Influenza Evolution -- THE VIRUS -- SUBTYPES -- REASSORTMENT -- HOST RANGE -- AVIAN INFLUENZA -- EVOLUTION IN SWINE AND HORSES -- HOST SPECIFICITY -- HUMAN INFLUENZA -- PANDEMIC INFLUENZA -- 1918 H1N1 "Spanish Flu" Pandemic -- 1957 H2N2 "Asian Flu" and 1968 H3N2 "Hong Kong Flu" Pandemics -- REAPPEARANCE OF H1N1 -- SEROARCHAEOLOGY -- EPIDEMIC INFLUENZA -- ANTIGENIC DRIFT -- TARGETS OF SELECTION -- BARRIERS TO STUDYING INFLUENZA EVOLUTION -- EFFECTS OF HUMAN ACTIVITY ON INFLUENZA EVOLUTION -- UNANSWERED QUESTIONS -- REFERENCES -- EIGHT Free-Living to Freewheeling: The Evolution of Vibrio cholerae from Innocence to Infamy -- INTRODUCTION -- CLASSIFICATION -- FREE-LIVING AQUATIC LIFE STYLE -- HUMAN PATHOGENIC LIFE STYLE -- EVOLUTION OF PATHOGENIC VIBRIO CHOLERAE -- CTX Phi -- TCP PATHOGENICITY ISLAND.

ENVIRONMENTAL STRAINS CARRYING VARIANTS OF CTX Phi AND VPI -- COORDINATE REGULATION OF V. CHOLERAE GENES -- GENETICS OF THE CELL SURFACE LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES -- MICROEVOLUTION IN VIBRIO CHOLERAE -- EVOLUTIONARY SIGNATURES IN THE WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCE -- CONCLUDING REMARKS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- NINE Evolutionary Dynamics of Daphnia and Their Microparasites -- INTRODUCTION -- THE DAPHNIA-MICROPARASITE SYSTEM -- HOST AND PARASITE GENETIC VARIATION AND RELATED PHENOMENA -- Among Population Variation -- Within Population Variation -- EVOLUTIONARY DYNAMICS AND RELATED PHENOMENA -- Host Dynamics -- Parasite Dynamics -- CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS -- REFERENCES -- TEN Human Susceptibility to Visceral Leishmaniasis (Leishmania donovani) and to Schistosomiasis (Schistosoma mansoni) Is Controlled by Major Genetic Loci -- SUSCEPTIBILITY TO SEVERE DISEASE DURING AN OUTBREAK OF VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS IN A SUDANESE VILLAGE -- SUSCEPTIBILITY TO VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS IS DETERMINED BY A MAJOR SUSCEPTIBILITY LOCUS -- GENETIC CONTROL OF SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI INFECTION LEVELS BY GENES ON CHROMOSOME 5q31-q33 -- PHENOTYPIC HETEROGENEITY IN PERIPORTAL FIBROSIS IN SUBJECTS INFECTED BY S. MANSONI -- SEVERE HEPATIC FIBROSIS IN PATIENTS WITH S. MANSONI INFECTION IS CONTROLLED BY A MAJOR LOCUS (SM2) THAT IS CLOSELY LINKED TO THE INTERFERON-Gamma RECEPTOR (IFNGR1) GENE -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- PART FOUR GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY CONSIDERATIONS -- ELEVEN The Evolution of Pathogen Virulence in Response to Animal and Public Health Interventions -- INTRODUCTION -- NATURAL SELECTION ON VIRULENCE -- MALARIA VIRULENCE -- Parasite Genetics? -- Selection for Virulence? -- Selection against Virulence? -- VACCINATION AND VIRULENCE EVOLUTION: THEORY -- VACCINATION AND VIRULENCE EVOLUTION: ASSUMPTIONS -- OTHER DISEASES -- ANTI-TOXIN VACCINES.

CONCLUDING REMARKS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- TWELVE Infection and the Diversity of Regulatory DNA -- INTRODUCTION -- THE DISTRIBUTION OF DIVERSITY BETWEEN REGULATORY AND CODING DNA -- HOW REGULATORY DNA INFLUENCES THE IMMUNOPATHOLOGY OF INFECTION -- PROMOTER DIMORPHISM -- FISHING FOR PROMOTER DIVERSIFICATION USING THE WHOLE GENOME -- FISHING FOR PROMOTER DIVERSIFICATION IN SMALLER POOLS: POACHING BY VIRUSES -- FISHING FOR PROMOTER DIVERSIFICATION IN SMALLER POOLS: CANCER -- HOW DO TFs BIND TO DNA, AND HOW DOES THAT AFFECT DNA STRUCTURE? -- RECOMBINATION SIGNAL SEQUENCE VARIABILITY -- FROM INFORMATICS TO EXPERIMENT, AND BACK AGAIN -- REFERENCES -- THIRTEEN Genetic Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases: The First Half-Century -- INTRODUCTION -- ABO BLOOD GROUPS -- HYPERNORMAL CONTROLS -- GROUP DIFFERENCES -- POSITIONAL CLONING -- REFERENCES -- FOURTEEN The Impact of Human Genetic Diversity on the Transmission and Severity of Infectious Diseases -- THE INFECTIOUS THREAT -- ENVIRONMENTAL AND BIOLOGICAL FACTORS -- THE GOLDEN AGE OF GENETICS? -- THE SEARCH FOR SUSCEPTIBILITY GENES FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES -- INDIVIDUALS VS POPULATIONS -- THE DISTRIBUTION OF OVERALL DIVERSITY IN THE HUMAN SPECIES -- INFECTIOUS DISEASES AND HUMAN EVOLUTION -- DIFFERENCES AMONG INDIVIDUALS AND AMONG HUMAN POPULATIONS -- A SORELY NEEDED ENTERPRISE: THE HUMAN GENOME DIVERSITY PROJECT (HGDP) -- CONCLUDING REMARKS -- GLOSSARY -- REFERENCES -- FIFTEEN Evolution and the Etiology of Diabetes Mellitus -- INTRODUCTION -- EVOLUTIONARY PRESSURE, EPIDEMIOLOGY, AND FITNESS -- DIABETES MELLITUS: A CASE STUDY -- THE EPIDEMIOLOGY OF T1DM -- THE EVOLUTIONARY IMPACT OF T1DM -- THE ETIOLOGY OF T1DM -- INFECTION AND T1DM -- THE EPIDEMIOLOGY OF T2DM -- THE EVOLUTIONARY IMPACT OF T2DM -- THE ETIOLOGY OF T2DM -- INFECTION AND T2DM -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES.

SIXTEEN The Future of Human Evolution -- CULTURAL VS. GENETIC EVOLUTION -- RECENT HUMAN EVOLUTION: OUT OF AFRICA 2 -- PROBABLE SINGLE ORIGIN OF MODERN HUMAN LANGUAGE -- MEDICINE AND NATURAL SELECTION -- REFERENCES -- Index.
Abstract:
This book, originally published in 2004, is concerned with the links between human evolution and infectious disease.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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