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The Biology of helminth parasites Kathleen M. Lyons

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The Institute of Biology's Studies in BiologyPublication details: London Edward Arnold 1978Description: 59 pContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0713127155
Subject(s):
Contents:
1 - Introduction, 2 - The parasitic way of life - advantages and problems, 3 - Attachment and maintenance in the host, 4 - Feeding and respiration, 5 - Reproduction and transmission, 6 - Dispersal in time and space, 7 Helminth evolution.
Summary: The book's main emphasis is on the demands of parasitism as a way of life and the way in which various helminths have adapted their biology to this specialized life style. Having, evaluated the advantages and problems of being a parasite, the book goes on to discuss how representatives of the platyhelminths nematodes and acanthocephalans have evolved solutions to the problems they face. This involves a review of their structural, physiological, immunological and behavioural adaptations, some particular features of parasite ecology and evolution are also briefly discussed. The helminth examples used have been chosen either because they are important parasites of man or his domestic animals or because they are much studied laboratory models.
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Includes bibliographical references and index

1 - Introduction, 2 - The parasitic way of life - advantages and problems, 3 - Attachment and maintenance in the host, 4 - Feeding and respiration, 5 - Reproduction and transmission, 6 - Dispersal in time and space, 7 Helminth evolution.

The book's main emphasis is on the demands of parasitism as a way of life and the way in which various helminths have adapted their biology to this specialized life style. Having, evaluated the advantages and problems of being a parasite, the book goes on to discuss how representatives of the platyhelminths nematodes and acanthocephalans have evolved solutions to the problems they face. This involves a review of their structural, physiological, immunological and behavioural adaptations, some particular features of parasite ecology and evolution are also briefly discussed. The helminth examples used have been chosen either because they are important parasites of man or his domestic animals or because they are much studied laboratory models.

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