Parasite-Insect Interactions: Reciprocal Manipulation - Brossura

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0521644259 ISBN 13: 9780521644259

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 1998

Riassunto

This volume of Parasitology examines specifically parasite-insect Interaction.

Su questo libro

Contenuti

List of contributions; Preface; 1. Evolution and phylogeny of behavioural maniuplation of insect hosts by parasites; 2. Parasite manipulation of insect reproduction: who benefits?; 3. Trypanosome infections and survival in tsetse; 4. The coevolution of host resistance and parasitoid virulence; 5. Coevolutionary interactions between host life histories and parasite life cycles; 6. Modulation of immune responses to parasitoids by polydnaviruses; 7. Displaced tick-parasite interactions at the host interface; 8. The neglected saliva: medically important toxins in the saliva of human lice; 9. Plasmodium ookinete development in the mosquito midgut: a case of reciprocal manipulation; 10. The biology of Pasmodium falciparum transmission stages; 11. Wolbachia as a possible means of driving genes into populations.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0521644259
• ISBN 13: 9780521644259
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 124
• Redattore: Hurd Hilary, Lane Richard, Chappell L. H.
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: Avery; https://www.avery.fr/; ; chemin des peupliers 27; Dardilly; Francia