SECTION I - AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STRUCTURE AND BEHAVIOR OF VIRUSES. - 1. Defining the Ecology of Viruses - 2 An Introduction to Viral Taxonomy with Emphasis on Animal Hosts and the Proposal of Akamara, a Potential Domain for the Genomic Acellular Agents - 3. Virus Morphology, Replication, and Assembly - 4. The (Co)evolutionary Ecology of Viruses SECTION II - VIRUSES OF MACROSCOPIC ANIMALS. - 5. Coral Viruses - 6. Viruses Infecting Marine Molluscs - 7. The Viral Ecology of Aquatic Crustaceans - 8. Viruses of Fish - 9. Ecology of Viruses Infecting Ectothermic Vertebrates—The Impact of Ranavirus Infections on Amphibians - 10. Viruses of Insects - 11. Viruses of Terrestrial Mammals - 12. Viruses of Cetaceans - 13. The Relationship Between Humans, Their Viruses, and Prions - 14. Ecology of Avian Viruses (Josanne H. Verhagen, Ron A.M. Fouchier, and Vincent J. Munster). INDEX.