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Biologie von Parasiten

Author: Richard Lucius,Brigitte Loos-Frank,Richard P. Lane

Publisher: Springer-Verlag

ISBN: 3662548623

Category: Science

Page: 546

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Die 3. vollständig überarbeitete Auflage dieses Buches führt in die Biologie parasitärer Einzeller, Würmer und Arthropoden ein. Die Autoren bieten auf Grundlage der aktuellen Systematik eine Übersicht über die verschiedenen Parasitengruppen. Ausführlich wird auf wichtige Infektionserreger, wie die der Malaria, Schlafkrankheit und Toxoplasmose eingegangen, wobei die molekularen Grundlagen der Pathogene erläutert werden. Außerdem werden Parasiten als Krankheitsüberträger dargestellt und wichtige Infektionskrankheiten, die bei Tieren vorkommen, besprochen. Daher wendet sich dieses Buch sowohl an Biologen, als auch an Veterinärmediziner und Mediziner. In den einzelnen Kapiteln kommen die Anpassungen an die parasitische Lebensweise zur Sprache. Anhand häufiger Vertreter werden exemplarisch typische Lebenszyklen, die Immunreaktionen und die resultierenden Krankheitsbilder erklärt. Viele Abbildungen veranschaulichen dabei den Text. Die Prüfungsfragen am Ende eines jeden Kapitels helfen den Lerninhalt zu rekapitulieren und zu verinnerlichen.
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Biologie von Parasiten

Author: Richard Lucius,Brigitte Loos-Frank

Publisher: Springer-Verlag

ISBN: 3540377093

Category: Science

Page: 552

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Infektionserreger der besonderen Art: Malaria, Schlafkrankheit, Würmer und Zecken. Die Autoren bieten auf Grundlage der aktuellen Systematik eine Übersicht über die Biologie parasitärer Einzeller, Würmer und Arthropoden. In Querschnittskapiteln sprechen sie die Besonderheiten der parasitischen Lebensweise an. Am Beispiel typischer Vertreter stellen sie die Lebenskreisläufe und immunologische sowie molekulare Aspekte dar. Sie behandeln sowohl die Krankheiten der Tiere als auch die des Menschen. Anschauliche Abbildungen ergänzen den Text. Eine weitere wertvolle Ergänzung sind die klinischen Bilder der Krankheiten sowie Prüfungsfragen am Ende eines jeden Kapitels. Mit diesem Lehrbuch sind Sie gut gerüstet!
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Biologie von Parasiten

Author: Richard Lucius,Brigitte Loos-Frank

Publisher: Springer

ISBN: 3540377077

Category: Science

Page: 552

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Infektionserreger der besonderen Art: Malaria, Schlafkrankheit, Würmer und Zecken. Die Autoren bieten auf Grundlage der aktuellen Systematik eine Übersicht über die Biologie parasitärer Einzeller, Würmer und Arthropoden. In Querschnittskapiteln sprechen sie die Besonderheiten der parasitischen Lebensweise an. Am Beispiel typischer Vertreter stellen sie die Lebenskreisläufe und immunologische sowie molekulare Aspekte dar. Sie behandeln sowohl die Krankheiten der Tiere als auch die des Menschen. Anschauliche Abbildungen ergänzen den Text. Eine weitere wertvolle Ergänzung sind die klinischen Bilder der Krankheiten sowie Prüfungsfragen am Ende eines jeden Kapitels. Mit diesem Lehrbuch sind Sie gut gerüstet!
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The Biology of Parasites

Author: Richard Lucius,Brigitte Loos-Frank,Richard K. Grencis,Robert Poulin,Craig Roberts,Richard P. Lane

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

ISBN: 3527328483

Category: Medical

Page: 472

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This heavily illustrated text teaches parasitology from a biological perspective. It combines classical descriptive biology of parasites with modern cell and molecular biology approaches, and also addresses parasite evolution and ecology. Parasites found in mammals, non-mammalian vertebrates, and invertebrates are systematically treated, incorporating the latest knowledge about their cell and molecular biology. In doing so, it greatly extends classical parasitology textbooks and prepares the reader for a career in basic and applied parasitology.
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Evolutionary Biology of Parasites

Author: Peter W. Price

Publisher: Princeton University Press

ISBN: 9780691082578

Category: Science

Page: 237

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In spite of the fact that parasites represent more than half of all living species of plants and animals, their role in the evolution of life on earth has been substantially underestimated. Here, for the first time within an evolutionary and ecological framework, Peter Price integrates the biological attributes that characterize parasites ranging from such diverse groups as viruses, bacteria, protozoa, and fungi, to helminths, mites, insects, and parasitic flowering plants. Synthesizing systematics, ecology, behavioral biology, genetics, and biogeography, the author outlines the success of parasitism as a mode of life, the common features of the wide range of organisms that adopt such a way of life, the reasons for parasites' extraordinary potential for continued adaptive radiation, and their role in molding community structure by means of their impact on the evolution of host species. In demonstrating the importance of parasitic interactions for determining population patterns and geographical distributions, Dr. Price generates further discussion and suggests new areas for research.
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Parasitology

The Biology of Animal Parasites

Author: Elmer Ray Noble,Glenn Arthur Noble

Publisher: N.A

ISBN: N.A

Category: Parasites

Page: 617

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The Biology of Nematodes

Author: Donald L Lee

Publisher: CRC Press

ISBN: 0415272114

Category: Science

Page: 635

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The Biology of Nematodes synthesizes knowledge of the biology of free-living, plant-parasitic, and animal-parasitic nematodes. Contributed works by recognized researchers apply groundbreaking molecular techniques, many of which resulted from work on Caenorhabditis elegans, toward new approaches to the study of nematode worms. Topics covered include: ̈ Systematics and phylogeny ̈ Neuromuscular physiology ̈ Locomotion ̈ Sense organs ̈ Behavior ̈ Aging ̈ The nematode genome ̈ Survival strategies ̈ Immunology ̈ Epidemiology ̈ Structure and organization ̈ Gametes and fertilization ̈ Development ̈ Feeding, digestion, and metabolism
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Biology of Parasitism

Author: Christian Tschudi,Edward J. Pearce

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

ISBN: 1475746229

Category: Medical

Page: 328

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Biology of Parasitism is based on the Biology of Parasitism Course at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. Having just celebrated its 20th offering, this Course has distinguished itself as the premier, world-renowned training ground for future generations of parasitologists. The primary goal of the Course is to attract and introduce the very best and most promising young researchers to the many unresolved problems in parasitology and prepare them for their future as independent investigators in the field. The rigorous program combines state-of-the-art laboratory research with a program of visiting lecturers who bring together the most current research in the field. Since at this time there are no academic institutions that have enough depth in parasitology research or teaching faculty to provide up-to-date and state-of-the-art training, the Course has become, and will remain, a global resource for providing intensive education in modern parasitology. Biology of Parasitism is intended to present a snapshot of the content and spirit of the Biology of Parasitism Course. By presenting a series of chapters that reflect the formal lectures that students receive on a daily basis, as well as the approaches used during the laboratory section of the Course, the editors hope to share some of the science that occurs there. One part of the book presents the experimental component of the Course, in particular the subject matter of the four two-week sessions covering Immunology, Biochemistry, Cell Biology and Molecular Biology of protozoan and helminth parasites. As in the Course, the experimental part is complemented by a number of review-like chapters solicited from the large number of speakers who lecture during the Course.
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Biology of the Acanthocephala

Author: David William Thomasson Crompton,Brent B. Nickol

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

ISBN: 9780521246743

Category: Science

Page: 519

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This volume was first published in 1985. A knowledge of this phylum of parasitic worms is instructive for all research workers investigating the principles of parasitism.
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Living Together

The Biology of Animal Parasitism

Author: W. Trager

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

ISBN: 1461594650

Category: Medical

Page: 480

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William Trager has been an avid student of parasites for over 50 years at the Rockefeller University. Around the turn of this century, parasitology enjoyed a certain vogue, inspired by colonial responsibilities of the technically ad vanced countries, and by the exciting etiological and therapeutic discoveries of Ross, Manson, Ehrlich, and others. For some decades, the Western hemi sphere's interest in animal parasites has been eclipsed by concern for bacteria and viruses as agents of transmissible disease. Only very recently, initiatives like the Tropical Disease Research programs of WHO-World Bank-UNDP, and the Great Neglected Disease networks of the Rockefeller and MacArthur Foundations have begun to compensate for the neglect of these problems by United States federal health research agencies. Throughout that period, how ever, the Rockefeller Institute (later University) has given high priority to the challenges of parasitism, corresponding during a formidable period with Dr. Trager's own career. The present work then, is a distillation of the insight collected by our principal doyen of parasite biology, informed but by no means confined to his own research. It is addressed to the reader of broad biological interest and training, not to the specialist. The disarmingly unpretentious style makes the work readily accessible to college undergraduates or even to gifted high school students; but do not be deceived thereby, as it has an enormous range of factual information and theoretical insight, familiar to few, but potentially important to most biologists.
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Evolutionary Ecology of Parasites

Second Edition

Author: Robert Poulin

Publisher: Princeton University Press

ISBN: 9781400840809

Category: Science

Page: 360

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Parasites have evolved independently in numerous animal lineages, and they now make up a considerable proportion of the biodiversity of life. Not only do they impact humans and other animals in fundamental ways, but in recent years they have become a powerful model system for the study of ecology and evolution, with practical applications in disease prevention. Here, in a thoroughly revised and updated edition of his influential earlier work, Robert Poulin provides an evolutionary ecologist's view of the biology of parasites. He sets forth a comprehensive synthesis of parasite evolutionary ecology, integrating information across scales from the features of individual parasites to the dynamics of parasite populations and the structuring of parasite communities. Evolutionary Ecology of Parasites presents an evolutionary framework for the study of parasite biology, combining theory with empirical examples for a broader understanding of why parasites are as they are and do what they do. An up-to-date synthesis of the field, the book is an ideal teaching tool for advanced courses on the subject. Pointing toward promising directions and setting a research agenda, it will also be an invaluable reference for researchers who seek to extend our knowledge of parasite ecology and evolution.
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Parasitism

The Ecology and Evolution of Intimate Interactions

Author: Claude Combes

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

ISBN: 0226114465

Category: Medical

Page: 728

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In Parasitism, Claude Combes explores the fascinating adaptations parasites have developed through their intimate interactions with their hosts. He begins with the biology of parasites—their life cycles, habitats, and different types of associations with their hosts. Next he discusses genetic interactions between hosts and parasites, and he ends with a section on the community ecology of parasites and their role in the evolution of their hosts. Throughout the book Combes enlivens his discussion with a wealth of concrete examples of host-parasite interactions.
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The Biology of Plant Parasitic Nematodes

Author: H. R. Wallace

Publisher: N.A

ISBN: N.A

Category: Parasites

Page: 280

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Reproduction, development and growth; The soil environment; The influence of the environment; Movement; Some aspects of behaviour; Distribution; Host-parasite relations; Populations; Control.
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Marine Parasitology

Author: Klaus Rohde

Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING

ISBN: 0643099271

Category: Science

Page: 592

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This comprehensive, authoritative and up-to-date work provides the definitive overview of marine parasites worldwide. It is an invaluable reference for students and researchers in parasitology and marine biology and will also be of interest to ecologists, aquaculturists and invertebrate biologists. Initial chapters review the diversity and basic biology of the different groups of marine parasites, discussing their morphology, life cycles, infection mechanisms and effects on hosts. The ecology and importance of marine parasites are discussed in the second part of the book, where contributions investigate behavioural and ecological aspects of parasitism and discuss the evolution and zoogeography of marine parasites. In addition, the economic, environmental and medical significance of these organisms is outlined, particularly their importance in aquaculture and their effects on marine mammals and birds. Written by an international team of contributors, the emphasis is on a thorough grounding in marine parasitology combined with reviews of novel concepts and cutting-edge research.
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A Functional Biology of Parasitism

Ecological and evolutionary implications

Author: G.W. Esch,J.C. Fernandez

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

ISBN: 9401123527

Category: Science

Page: 337

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Series Editor: Peter Calow, Department of Zoology, University of Sheffield, England The main aim of this series will be to illustrate and to explain the way organisms 'make a living' in nature. At the heart of this - their functional biology - is the way organisms acquire and then make use of resources in metabolism, movement, growth, reproduction, and so on. These processes will form the fundamental framework of all the books in the series. Each book will concentrate on a particular taxon (species, family, class or even phylum) and will bring together information on the form, physiology, ecology and evolutionary biology of the group. The aim will be not only to describe how organisms work, but also to consider why they have come to work in that way. By concentration on taxa which are well known, it is hoped that the series will not only illustrate the success of selection, but also show the constraints imposed upon it by the physiological, morphological and developmental limitations of the groups. Another important feature of the series will be its organismic orientation. Each book will emphasize the importance of functional integration in the day to-day lives and the evolution of organisms. This is crucial since, though it may be true that organisms can be considered as collections of gene determined traits, they nevertheless interact with their environment as integrated wholes and it is in this context that individual traits have been subjected to natural selection and have evolved.
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The Biology of Blood-Sucking in Insects

Author: M. J. Lehane

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

ISBN: 9780521543958

Category: Medical

Page: 321

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Blood-sucking insects transmit many of the most debilitating diseases to man including malaria, sleeping sickness, filariasis, dengue, typhus and plague. Additionally these insects cause major economic losses in agriculture by direct damage to livestock. This new edition of The Biology of Blood-Sucking in Insects has been fully updated since it was first published in 1991. It provides a unique, topic-led commentary on the biological aspects that are common to blood-sucking insects. This account focuses on the biological adaptations that clearly suit the blood-sucking habit and further discusses host–insect interactions and the transmission of parasites by blood-sucking insects. It also outlines the medical, social and economic impact of blood-sucking insects. The final chapter is designed as a useful quick-reference section. Written in a clear, concise fashion and well illustrated throughout, the text will be of direct interest to advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of medical and veterinary entomology and parasitology.
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Human Parasitology

Author: Burton Jerome Bogitsh,Clint Earl Carter,Thomas N. Oeltmann

Publisher: Academic Press

ISBN: 0120884682

Category: Medical

Page: 459

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'Human Parasitology' emphasizes the medical aspects of the topic, while incorporating functional morphology, physiology, biochemistry, and immunology to enhance appreciation of the diverse implications of parasitism. Contents - Symbiosis and Parasitism. Parasite-Host Interactions. General Characteristics of the Protozoa. Visceral Protozoa I - Amoebae and Ciliates. Visceral Protozoa II - Flagellates. Blood and Tissue Protozoa I - Hemoflagellates. Blood and Tissue Protozoa II - Human Malaria. Genearal Characteristics of the Trematoda Visceral Flukes. Blood Flukes. General Characteristics of the Cestoidea. Intestinal Tapeworms Extraintestinal Tapeworms. General Characteristics of the Nematoda. Intestinal Nematodes Blood and Tissue Nematodes. Arthropods as Vectors.