Parasitic flatworms : molecular biology, biochemistry, immunology and physiology /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2006.
• Subjects: Platyhelminths.; Platyhelminthes.; Cestode Infections.; Pesticides and Drugs; Control, (New March 2000); Pesticide and Drug Resistance.; Host Resistance and Immunity.; Protozoan, Helminth, Mollusc and Arthropod Parasites of Animals, (New March 2000); Protozoan, Helminth and Arthropod Parasites of Humans, (New March 2000); Genetics and Molecular Genetics (Wild Animals), (New March 2000); Physiology and Biochemistry (Wild Animals), (New March 2000); Molecular Biology and Molecular Genetics, (Discontinued March 2000, Reinstated and Revised June 2002); Taxonomy and Evolution.; Biochemistry.; Disease control.; Genetics.; Host parasite relationships.; Immunology.; Metabolism.; Molecular biology.; Parasites.; Phylogeny.; Physiology.; Transcriptomes.; Electronic books.
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• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xx, 448 pages) : illustrations, charts; Also available in print format.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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This book contains 22 chapters which are distributed into three sections: phylogeny, genetics and transcriptomes; immunobiology, host-parasite interaction and control; and protein function, metabolism and physiology. It aims to review recent advances in the understanding of these and related topics in flatworm molecular biology and biochemistry. Where appropriate, comparisons are made between different parasitic flatworms and free-living species. This book will be of significant interest to those researching parasitology, immunology and infectious diseases.