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Concepts from evolution, ecology, parasitology, and immunology have informed a new synthesis of host-parasite interactions. The book builds on these established approaches whilst including some of the most successful interdisciplinary areas of modern biology - evolutionary epidemiology and ecological immunology.
List of contents
- 1: Parasites and their significance
- 2: The study of evolutionary parasitology
- 3: The diversity and natural history of parasites
- 4: The natural history of defences
- 5: Ecological immunology
- 6: Parasites, immunity, and sexual selection
- 7: Specificity
- 8: Parasite immune evasion and manipulation of host phenotype
- 9: Transmission, infection, and pathogenesis
- 10: Host-parasite genetics
- 11: Between-host dynamics (epidemiology)
- 12: Within-host dynamics and evolution
- 13: Virulence evolution
- 14: Host-parasite co-evolution
- 15: Ecology
- Glossary
About the author
Paul Schmid-Hempel is Emeritus Professor of Biology at the Institute of Integrative Biology (IBZ) and Genetic Diversity Centre at ETH Zürich University, Switzerland. He has made major contributions to the study of strategies of animal behaviour, ecological immunology, and evolutionary ecology, with a focus on social insects and their parasites. Experimentation, field work, laboratory studies, and genetic tools combined these studies. Paul has published several books, taught evolution and ecology at ETH Zurich, and was involved in the public outreach of science. He has served several learned societies, was Vice-President of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology, a Permanent Fellow of the Berlin Institute for Advanced Study (Wissenschaftskolleg) and is a member of the German National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina).
Summary
Concepts from evolution, ecology, parasitology, and immunology have informed a new synthesis of host-parasite interactions. The book builds on these established approaches whilst including some of the most successful interdisciplinary areas of modern biology - evolutionary epidemiology and ecological immunology.
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Review from previous edition ... a wonderful and updated introduction to parasitology, full of fascinating examples and thought-provoking ideas. I think any current researcher in parasitology, or anyone with a slight interest in the field, would undoubtedly benefit from reading at least some of the various topics presented in this book.
