Ecology of the acanthocephala / C.R. Kennedy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kennedy, C. R., 1941- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Acanthocephala--Evolution.

Acanthocephala.

Acanthocephala--Ecology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 249 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Acanthocephalans, or spiny-headed worms, are endoparasites found in almost all marine, freshwater and terrestrial systems. They infect a huge range of definitive and intermediate hosts during their life cycles, including both vertebrates and arthropods. This volume, first published in 2006, examines the distribution and abundance of the Acanthocephala, and uses this ecological information to reveal the group's enormous survival success. It discusses how the acanthocephalans have evolved differently to all other groups of parasites, and represent a distinct and alternative pathway of parasite evolution and host parasite-interactions. Written for graduate students and researchers in parasitology, ecology and zoology or anyone interested in reading about parasite ecology and evolution.

Contents:

Life cycles and transmission

Biogeography and distribution

Specificity

Host-parasite interactions

Population dynamics

Community dynamics

Introductions and extinctions

Relations to ecosystem changes.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-16496-6

1-280-70335-0

9786610703357

0-511-24596-3

0-511-24450-9

0-511-24665-X

0-511-31870-7

0-511-54190-2

0-511-24525-4

OCLC:

647614797

Publisher Number:

9780521850087