Pedigree of a Retrovirus

摘要

Modern biology is broad and deep. Although the drawing together of insights from each relevant branch of biology is the goal in addressing a problem like the AIDS pandemic, training in one biological discipline often comes at the expense of study in another. In Viral Sex: The Nature of AIDS, virolo-gist Jaap Goudsmit, chairman of the Department of Human Retrovirology at the University of Amsterdam, has looked beyond his field's molecular approaches for insights from the superorganismal scales of ecology and evolutionary biology.