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LOOKING DOWN FROM THE STARS

Barry, J. M. 2004. The great influenza: The epic story of the deadliest plague in history. New York: Viking.

Dugan, V. G., R. Chen, D. J. Spiro, et al. 2008. The evolutionary genetics and emergence of avian influenza viruses in wild birds. PLoS Pathogens 4 (5): e1000076.

Rambaut, A., O. G. Pybus, M. I. Nelson, C. Viboud, J. K. Taubenberger, and E. C. Holmes. 2008. The genomic and epidemiological dynamics of human influenza A virus. Nature 453:615–19.

Smith, G. J. D., D. Vijaykrishna, J. Bahl, et al. 2009. Origins and evolutionary genomics of the 2009 swine-origin H1N1 influenza A epidemic. Nature 459:1122–25.

Taubenberger, J. K., and D. M. Morens. 2008. The pathology of influenza virus infections. Annual Reviews of Pathology 3:499–522.

RABBITS WITH HORNS

Bravo, I. G., and Á. Alonso. 2006. Phylogeny and evolution of papillomaviruses based on the E1 and E2 proteins. Virus Genes 34:249–62.

Doorbar, J. 2006. Molecular biology of human papillomavirus infection and cervical cancer. Clinical Science 110:525.

García-Vallvé, S., Á. Alonso, and I. G. Bravo. 2005. Papillomaviruses: Different genes have different histories. Trends in Microbiology 13:514–21.

García-Vallvé, S., J. R. Iglesias-Rozas, Á. Alonso, and I. G. Bravo. 2006. Different papillomaviruses have different repertoires of transcription factor binding sites: Convergence and divergence in the upstream regulatory region. BMC Evolutionary Biology 6:20.

Horvath, C. A. J., G. A. V. Boulet, V. M. Renoux, P. O. Delvenne, and J.-P. J. Bogers. 2010. Mechanisms of cell entry by human papillomaviruses: An overview. Virology Journal 7:11.

Martin, D., and J. S. Gutkind. 2008. Human tumor-associated viruses and new insights into the molecular mechanisms of cancer. Oncogene 27 (Suppl 2): S31–42.

Schiffman, M., R. Herrero, R. DeSalle, et al. 2005. The carcinogenicity of human papillomavirus types reflects viral evolution. Virology 337:76–84.

THE ENEMY OF OUR ENEMY

Brussow, H. 2005. Phage therapy: The Escherichia coli experience. Microbiology 151:2133.

Deresinski, S. 2009. Bacteriophage therapy: Exploiting smaller fleas. Clinical Infectious Diseases 48:1096–1101.

Sulakvelidze, A., Z. Alavidze, and J. G. Morris Jr. 2001. Bacteriophage therapy. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy 45:649.

Summers, W. C. 2001. Bacteriophage therapy. Annual Reviews in Microbiology 55:437–51.

THE INFECTED OCEAN

Angly, F. E., B. Felts, M. Breitbart, et al. 2006. The marine viromes of four oceanic regions. PLoS Biology 4 (11): e368.

Brussaard, C. P. D., S. W. Wilhelm, F. Thingstad, et al. 2008. Global-scale processes with a nanoscale drive: The role of marine viruses. ISME Journal 2:575–78.

Danovaro, R., A. Dell’ Anno, C. Corinaldesi, et al. 2008. Major viral impact on the functioning of benthic deep-sea ecosystems. Nature 454:1084–87.

Desnues, C., B. Rodriguez-Brito, S. Rayhawk, et al. 2008. Biodiversity and biogeography of phages in modern stromatolites and thrombolites. Nature 452:340–43.

Rohwer, F., and R. Vega Thurber. 2009. Viruses manipulate the marine environment. Nature 459:207–12.

Suttle, C. A. 2007. Marine viruses—major players in the global ecosystem. Nature Reviews Microbiology 5:801–12.

Van Etten, J. L., L. C. Lane, and R. H. Meints. 1991. Viruses and viruslike particles of eukaryotic algae. Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews 55:586.

Williamson, S. J., S. C. Cary, K. E. Williamson, et al. 2008. Lysogenic virus–host interactions predominate at deep-sea diffuse-flow hydrothermal vents. ISME Journal 2:1112–21.

OUR INNER PARASITES

Blikstad, V., F. Benachenhou, G. O. Sperber, and J. Blomberg. 2008. Evolution of human endogenous retroviral sequences: A conceptual account. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences 65:3348–65.

Dewannieux, M., F. Harper, A. Richaud, et al. 2006. Identification of an infectious progenitor for the multiple-copy HERV-K human endogenous retroelements. Genome Research 16:1548–56.

Jern, P., and J. M. Coffin. 2008. Effects of retroviruses