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Table of contents (21 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Origins, Evolutionary Trends and Diversification
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Development and Life Cycles
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Host-Parasite Interactions
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About this book
This book provides an up-to-date review of the biology of myxozoans, which represent a divergent clade of endoparasitic cnidarians. Myxozoans are of fundamental interest in understanding how early diverging metazoans have adopted parasitic lifestyles, and are also of considerable economic and ecological concern as endoparasites of fish. Synthesizing recent research, the chapters explore issues such as myxozoan origins; evolutionary trends and diversification; development and life cycles; interactions with hosts; immunology; disease ecology; the impacts of climate change on disease; risk assessment; emerging diseases; and disease mitigation. This comprehensive work will appeal to a wide readership, from invertebrate zoologists, evolutionary biologists and developmental biologists to ecologists and parasitologists. It will also be of great practical interest to fisheries and conservation biologists. The identification of key areas for future research will appeal to scientists at all levels.
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Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom
Beth Okamura, Alexander Gruhl
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Department of Microbiology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, USA
Jerri L. Bartholomew
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Myxozoan Evolution, Ecology and Development
Editors: Beth Okamura, Alexander Gruhl, Jerri L. Bartholomew
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14753-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-14752-9Published: 14 April 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-35017-2Published: 07 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-14753-6Published: 01 April 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 441
Number of Illustrations: 27 b/w illustrations, 37 illustrations in colour
Topics: Invertebrates, Evolutionary Biology, Parasitology, Developmental Biology, Freshwater & Marine Ecology