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An Ecological Approach to Acanthocephalan Physiology

Author : D. W. T. Crompton

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 14,76 MB

Release : 2009-03-19

Category : Nature

ISBN : 9780521104708

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Acanthocephalan worms are parasitic throughout their life cycles and the environments they experience are to be found in the bodies of vertebrates, in which they achieve sexual maturity and in the tissues of arthropods, in which they develop. This monograph, first published in 1970, aims to relate present knowledge of acanthocephalan physiology to the physical and biotic factors occurring in the environments occupied at different stages of the life cycle. This theme is illustrated by considering feeding, metabolism and reproduction of adult worms, certain aspects of the physiology of the eggs and developmental stages and the processes of infection of the hosts. The author emphasises the necessity of culturing acanthocephalans in vitro if their biology is to be understood in detail.



The Cellular Defence Reactions of Insects

Author : George Salt

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 140 pages

File Size : 27,11 MB

Release : 1970-10-02

Category : Science

ISBN : 9780521079365

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This book examines how insects counteract infection by a variety of reactions, partly humoral but principally cellular.



Modern Parasitology

Author : F. E. G. Cox

Publisher : John Wiley & Sons

Page : 294 pages

File Size : 39,93 MB

Release : 2009-07-17

Category : Science

ISBN : 1444313959

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This is a thorough revision and update of the highly successful first edition, which which achieved sales in excess of 4,500. The text serves as a comprehensive introduction to parasitology for both undergraduate and beginning graduate students. In this edition, particular emphasis is placed on parasites of human and veterinary importance. The first three chapters in the text are concerned with how parasites 'work,' their biochemistry, molecular and cell biology and physiology. The remaining chapters cover ecology and epidemiology, immunology and chemotherapy, with the final chapter covering integrated control. This new edition contains new material on cell and molecular biology, vectors and control, which is in contrast to the general biological approach of the first edition. The second edition will succeed the first as the major text on parasitology for students in biology, zoology, microbiology, medicine, veterinary medicine, tropical medicine and public health.



Principal Diseases of Marine and Shellfish

Author : Carl J. Sindermann

Publisher : Gulf Professional Publishing

Page : 548 pages

File Size : 44,58 MB

Release : 1990-02-28

Category : Science

ISBN : 9780126458510

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This Second Edition has been expanded to two volumes, the first of which focuses on marine fish. Volume 1 reviews the important diseases of wild, captive, or cultivated fish species, fish immunology, the effects of disease on populations, and public health aspects of fish diseases. Fishery scientists and managers, marine biologists, marine ecologists, and marine aquaculturists will find this volume indispensable. Principal Diseases of Marine Fish and Shellfish examines: Important diseases of marine fish and shellfish The effects of disease on wild and cultivated populations of fish and shellfish How fish and shellfish resist invasion by potential pathogen The influence of coastal/estuarine pollution on fish and shellfish disease The public health implications of fish and shellfish diseases



National Library of Medicine Current Catalog

Author : National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

Publisher :

Page : 1008 pages

File Size : 26,43 MB

Release : 1971

Category : Medicine

ISBN :

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First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.



Parasitism and Host Behaviour

Author : C F Barnard

Publisher : CRC Press

Page : 393 pages

File Size : 23,19 MB

Release : 1990-08-09

Category : Nature

ISBN : 0203489950

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Recent ideas and experimental studies suggest that the relationship between parasitism and host behaviour has been a powerful shaping force in the evolution not only of behaviour patterns themselves but, through them, of morphology and population and community dynamics. This book brings together recent work across the disciplines of parasitology an



Ecology of the Acanthocephala

Author : C. R. Kennedy

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 211 pages

File Size : 33,37 MB

Release : 2006-09-07

Category : Science

ISBN : 1139458248

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Book Description

Acanthocephalans, or spiny-headed worms, are endoparasites found in almost all marine, freshwater and terrestrial systems. They infect a huge range of definitive and intermediate hosts during their life cycles, including both vertebrates and arthropods. This volume, first published in 2006, examines the distribution and abundance of the Acanthocephala, and uses this ecological information to reveal the group's enormous survival success. It discusses how the acanthocephalans have evolved differently to all other groups of parasites, and represent a distinct and alternative pathway of parasite evolution and host parasite-interactions. Written for graduate students and researchers in parasitology, ecology and zoology or anyone interested in reading about parasite ecology and evolution.



Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota

Author : Darryl L. Felder

Publisher : Texas A&M University Press

Page : 1405 pages

File Size : 40,75 MB

Release : 2009

Category : Nature

ISBN : 1603442693

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Book Description

This landmark scientific reference for scientists, researchers, and students of marine biology tackles the monumental task of taking a complete biodiversity inventory of the Gulf of Mexico with full biotic and biogeographic information. Presenting a comprehensive summary of knowledge of Gulf biota through 2004, the book includes seventy-seven chapters, which list more than fifteen thousand species in thirty-eight phyla or divisions and were written by 138 authors from seventy-one institutions in fourteen countries.This first volume of Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota, a multivolumed set edited by John W. Tunnell Jr., Darryl L. Felder, and Sylvia A. Earle, provides information on each species' habitat, biology, and geographic range, along with full references and a narrative introduction to the group, which opens each chapter.