Micromammals and macroparasites : from evolutionary ecology to management /
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Table of Contents:
- Ch. 1. Micromammals and macroparasites: Who is who and how they interact?
- Ch.2. Digenean trematodes
- Ch. 3. Cestodes of small mammals: Taxonomy and life cycles
- Ch.4. Nematodes
- Ch.5. Acanthocephalans
- Ch.6. Taxonomy, host associations, life cycles and vectorial importance of ticks parasitizing small mammals
- Ch.7. Mesostigmatid mites as parasites of small mammals: Systematics, ecology, and the evolution of parasitic associations
- Ch.8. Taxonomy, life cycles and the origin of parasitism in trombiculid mites
- Ch.9. Blood-sucking lice (Anoplura) of small mammals: True parasites
- Ch.10. Fleas: Permanent satellites of small mammals
- Ch.11. Bat flies - obligate ectoparasites of bats
- Ch.12. Patterns of macroparasite diversity in small mammals
- Ch.13. Patterns of host specificity in parasites exploiting small mammals
- Ch.14. Coevolution of macroparasites and their small mammalian hosts: Cophylogeny and coadaptation
- Ch.15. Comparative phylogeography: The use of parasites for insights into host history
- Ch.16. Insularity and micromammal-macroparasite relationships
- Ch.17. Models for host-macroparasite interactions in micromammals
- Ch.18. Transmission ecology and the structure of parasite communities
- Ch.19. Effect of macroparasites on the energy budget of small mammals
- Ch.20. Immunogenetics of micromammal-macroparasite interactions
- Ch.21. Interactions among immune, endocrine, and behavioural response to infection
- Ch.22. Behaviour, life history strategies and parasite infection in rodents
- Ch.23. Nematode zoonoses
- Ch.24. Rodents as definitive hosts of Schistosoma, with special reference to S. mansoni transmission
- Ch.25. Towards understanding the impacts of environmental variation on Echinococcus multilocularis transmission
- Ch. 26. Parasites and pest population management
- Ch. 27. Biological conservation and parasitism
- Ch.28. Global changes and the future of micromammal-macroparasite interactions.