Graham C. Kearn

Parasitism and the Platyhelminths

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book differs from most parasitology texts in concentrating in detail on one group- the symbiotic platyhelminths. As the majority of these symbiotes are parasitic, the author presents a detailed explanation of the nature of such associations. The book adopts an organismal systematic approach setting the biology of parasitic platyhelminthes in an evolutionary context. Factual material is supplemented by excellent illustrations and references. This text will be of wide appeal to parasitologists, evolutionary biologists and zoologists interested in animal associations.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer / Springer Netherlands
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-412-80460-1
• 1998
• Seitenzahl: 564
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 40mm
• Gewicht: 1539g
• ISBN-13: 9780412804601
• ISBN-10: 0412804603
• Artikelnr.: 21800238

Inhaltsangabe

The platyhelminth panorama. Symbiosis and the turbellarians. Origins of the
major groups of parasites. The biology of the monogenean fish skin parasite
Entobdella soleae. Other monogeneans parasitizing the skin of fishes.
Monogeneans parasitizing the gill chambers of fishes. Endoparasitic
monogeneans. Unravelling the cestode life cycle. The biology of Hymenolepis
dimunuta. The fish tapeworms. The cyclophyllideans. Unravelling the
digenean life cycle. The biology of Fasciola hepatica. Digenean germinal
sacs, germinal lineage and genetic events. Digeneans with two hosts.
Digeneans with invertebrates as second intermediate hosts. Digeneans with
vertebrates, especially fishes, as second intermediate hosts. The
schistosomes. Lesser lights - didymozoideans and aspidogastreans.
Conclusions. References. Appendix.