Evolution of Virulence in Eukaryotic Microbes

Description

Evolution of Virulence in Eukaryotic Microbes offers a unique and up-to-date review of eukaryotic virulence in fungi, oomycetes, and protozoa parasites and how they affect both animals and plants. The only book to combine a discussion of human and plant pathogens, it takes a fresh look at the selective processes that have shaped the evolution of these organisms. Written by the world's top leaders in this area, the book explores advances in genetic tools, how pathogens exchange genetic material in nature, and the common themes of evolutionary adaptation that lead to disease in different hosts.

Table of Contents

General Overviews

• 1. Population genetics and parasite diversity
  Hsiao-Han Chang, Rachel F. Daniels and Daniel L. Hartl
• 2. Evolution of Meiosis, Recombination, and Sexual Reproduction in Eukaryotic Microbes
  Wenjun Li, Elizabeth Savelkoul, Joseph Heitman and John M. Logsdon, Jr.
• 3. Phylogenomic Analysis
  Andrew J. Roger, Martin Kolisko and Alastair G. B. Simpson
• 4. Phylogenetics and Evolution of Virulence in the Kingdom Fungi
  Arturo Casadevall and Monica A. Garcia-Solache

Population genetics and evolutionary approaches

• 5. Malaria: Host Range, Diversity and Speciation
  Ananias A. Escalante and Francisco J. Ayala
• 6. From Population Genomics to Elucidated Traits in Plasmodium falciparum
  Daniel E. Neafsey, Stephen F. Schaffner, Pardis C. Sabeti, Sarah K. Volkman and Dyann F. Wirth
• 7 Selective sweeps in human malaria parasites
  Xin-zhuan Su and John C. Wootton
• 8. Evolution of Drug Resistance in Fungi
  Jessica A. Hill, Samantha J. Hoot, Theodore C. White and Leah E. Cowen
• 9. Discovery of extant sexual cycles in human pathogenic fungi and their roles in the generation of diversity and virulence
  Richard J. Bennett and Kirsten Nielsen
• 10. Worldwide migrations, host shifts and re-emergence of Phytophthora infestans, the Plant Destroyer
  Jean Beagle Ristaino
• 11. Experimental and natural evolution of the Cryptococcus neoformans and C. gattii species complex
  Alexander Idnurm and Jianping Xu
• 12. Population genetics, diversity and spread of virulence in Toxoplasma gondii
  Benjamin M. Rosenthal and James W. Ajioka

Forward and reverse genetic systems for defining virulence

• 13. Genetic Crosses for Plasmodium falciparum: analysis of drug resistance
  John C.Tan and Michael Ferdig
• 14. Genetic mapping of virulence in rodent malarias
  Richard Carter and Richard Culleton
• 15. Genetic Mapping of Acute Virulence in Toxoplasma gondii
  L. David Sibley and John C. Boothroyd
• 16. Virulence in African trypanosomes: genetic and molecular approaches
  Annette MacLeod , Liam J. Morrison and Andy Tait
• 17. The evolution of antigenic variation in African trypanosomes
  Andrew P. Jackson and J. David Barry
• 18. Antigenic Variation, Adherence and Virulence in Malaria
  Joseph Smith and Kirk Deitsch
• 19. Invasion Ligand Diversity and Pathogenesis in Blood-Stage Malaria
  Manoj T. Duraisingh, Jeffrey D. Dvorin and Peter Rainer Preiser

Comparative "omics" approaches to defining virulence

• 20. Evolution of Virulence in Oomycete Plant Pathogens
  Paul R. J. Birch, Mary E. Coates and Jim L. Beynon
• 21. Evolution and genomics of the pathogenic Candida species complex
  Geraldine Butler, Mike Lorenz and Neil A. R. Gow
• 22. Evolution of Entamoeba histolytica virulence
  Upinder Singh and Christopher D. Huston
• 23. Sex and Virulence in Basidiomycete Pathogens
  Guus Bakkeren, Emilia K. Kruzel and Christina M. Hull
• 24. Emergence of the chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis and global amphibian declines
  Matthew C. Fisher, Jason E. Stajich and Rhys A. Farrer
• 25. Impact of Horizontal Gene Transfer on Virulence of Fungal Pathogens of Plants
  Barbara J. Howlett and Richard P. Oliver
• 26. Evolution of plant pathogenicity in Fusarium species
  Li-Jun Ma, H. Corby Kistler and Martijn Rep
• 27. Genetic, genomic, and molecular approaches to define virulence of Aspergillus fumigatus
  Laetitia Muszkieta,, William J. Steinbach and Jean-Paul Latge
• 28. Cryptosporidium: comparative genomics and pathogenesis
  Satomi Kato and Jessica C. Kissinger