Product Description: Nerve and muscle systems in helminth parasites interact in a highly co-ordinated manner to control movements associated with alimentation, reproduction, locomotion and attachment. All metazoan parasites rely on some or all of these activities for their survival...read more

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Product Description: Parasites experience two environments; one reflecting external conditions, the other created by the living host. The constraints imposed by these environments provide an avenue into the rich diversity of parasitology. Papers review familiar and unfamiliar extreme physical conditions from low temperatures and desiccation to the powerful water currents faced by some fish parasites...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Considerable progress has been made in recent years in unravelling the complexities of the snail-parasite relationship. The chapters in this work cover many different aspects, including ecology, parasite transmission, parasite interactions, evolutionary biology, molecular systematics, and snail defense systems; emphasizing the topical nature of this important area of parasite biology...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Information on parasite genomes will be fundamental to the future directions of parasitology research. Complete parasite gene sequence data, currently available for some pathogenic bacteria, will provide essential biological information and clues to novel drug and vaccine targets...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The diagnosis of infectious agents in humans and animals and the detection of pathogens in food and water are not without problems and often difficult to validate. The methods currently in use range from simple, easily managed, and routine techniques to extremely complex cutting edge technologies of modern molecular biology and high-throughput miniaturized methods...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Parasitology is an important specialist journal covering the latest advances in the subject. It publishes original papers on all aspects of parasitology and host-parasite relationships, ranging from the latest discoveries in biochemical and molecular biology to ecology and epidemiology in the context of medical, veterinary and biological sciences...read more

Product Description: This new collection of articles, edited by Bryan T. Grenfell includes: Factors affecting the evolution of virulence: nematode parasites of fig wasps; Host-parasite sexual strategies: transovarian transmission of a microsporidian sex ratio distorter in Gammarus duebeni; Understanding the population dynamic interaction between a microsporidian parasite and its insect host: a model of intermediate complexity; Modelling patterns of parasite aggregation in natural populations: trichostrongylid nematode-ruminant interactions as a case study; Maintenance of a microparasite infecting several host species in the Seregeti; Wildlife disease and conservation in Hawaii: pathogenicity of avian malaria (Plasmodium relictum) in experimentally infected Iiwi (Vestiaria coccinia)...read more

Product Description: This specially commissioned text covers a range of topics relating to chemotherapy and the immune system.