Para Sites

Author : Peter W. Price
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1980-05-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 069108257X

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Evolutionary Biology of Parasites by Peter W. Price Pdf

In spite of the fact that parasites represent more than half of all living species of plants and animals, their role in the evolution of life on earth has been substantially underestimated. Here, for the first time within an evolutionary and ecological framework, Peter Price integrates the biological attributes that characterize parasites ranging from such diverse groups as viruses, bacteria, protozoa, and fungi, to helminths, mites, insects, and parasitic flowering plants. Synthesizing systematics, ecology, behavioral biology, genetics, and biogeography, the author outlines the success of parasitism as a mode of life, the common features of the wide range of organisms that adopt such a way of life, the reasons for parasites' extraordinary potential for continued adaptive radiation, and their role in molding community structure by means of their impact on the evolution of host species. In demonstrating the importance of parasitic interactions for determining population patterns and geographical distributions, Dr. Price generates further discussion and suggests new areas for research.

Author : George E. Marcus
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2000-04-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 0226504379

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Para-Sites by George E. Marcus Pdf

Para-Sites, the penultimate volume in the Late Editions series, explores how social actors located within centers of power and privilege develop and express a critical consciousness of their own situations. Departing from the usual focus of ethnography and cultural analysis on the socially marginalized, these pieces probe subjects who are undeniably complicit with powerful institutional engines of contemporary change. In each case, the possibility of alternative thinking or practices is in complex relation to the subject's source of empowerment. These cases challenge the condition of cynicism that has been the favored mode of characterizing the mind-set of intellectuals and professionals, comfortable in their lives of middle-class consumption and work. In their effort to establish para-sites of critical awareness parallel to the levels of political and economic power at which they function, these subjects suggest that those who lead ordinary lives of modest power and privilege might not be parasites in relation to the systems they serve, but may be creating unique and independent critical perspectives.

Author : William Dwight Pierce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1908
Category : Boll weevil
ISBN : UFL:31262089289366

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Studies of Parasites of the Cotton Boll Weevil by William Dwight Pierce Pdf

Author : Sean Braune
Publisher : punctum books
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780998531861

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Language Parasites: Of Phorontology by Sean Braune Pdf

"What we call "Being" infects us and speaks through us - it treats us as a host to a linguistic and experiential parasite. Ontology - the study of Being - has primarily dealt with human questions regarding Being at the expense of the non-human, inhuman, and posthuman. Language Parasites works against this tendency by offering a "phorontology": a theory of Being inspired by "phoronts," which are tiny organisms that engage in parasitic migration (lice, mites, ticks, fleas, etc.). What is the Being of a parasite and how can that complicated non-human ontology influence human definitions of Being? Gradually, the anthropocentric distinction of subject and object fades away in favor of the emergence of a strange new philosophical entity called the transject, a being that is thrown far afield from the more normative notions of the subject that can be found in Hegel, Kant, Lacan, or even Foucault, Nietzsche, and Deleuze. A 'pataphysical excursion into the intricate world of philosophical ontology, Language Parasites presents the initial discoveries of a much larger project that seeks to redefine the boundaries of Being. This book is the result of a parasitic infection of continental philosophy in which the various parasites of German and French philosophy all meet at one locale for one express purpose: to eat together, feed together, and think together."--Back cover.

Author : Gediminas Valkiunas
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 946 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2004-10-28
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780203643792

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Avian Malaria Parasites and other Haemosporidia by Gediminas Valkiunas Pdf

When studying the effects of parasites on natural populations, the avian haematozoa fulfills many of the specifications of an ideal model. Featuring a multitude of tables and illustrations, Avian Malaria Parasites and Other Haemosporidia summarizes more than a century of research on bird haemosporidians. For a long time, bird blood parasites served as important models in studying human diseases. Although now largely replaced, the wealth of data and research remain. With chapters addressing life cycles and morphology, pathogenicity, ultrastructure, geographical distribution, and illustrated keys to all known species of the parasites, this book is a masterful assessment of the biology of bird haemosporidian parasites.

Author : John Marchalonis
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781468445718

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Immunobiology of Parasites and Parasitic Infections by John Marchalonis Pdf

The phenomena involved in infections of man and domestic animals with metazoan or protozoan parasites present formidable practical problems as well as a theoretical challenge to immunologists, molecular biologists, and evolu tionary biologists. With respect to the public health and economic problems, malaria, for example, remains a major health problem with approximately 200 million people being infected yearly and, on the basis of World Health Organiza tion estimates, more than 1 million children die each year of malaria infections (Chapter 4). This volume addresses state-of-the-art immunologic approaches to the development of vaccines for parasitic diseases (Chapter 9) and analyses of studies bearing on the antigenic characterization of protozoan and metazoan parasites (Chapters 4, 5, and 7), on investigations of the role of precise mecha nisms underlying natural resistance or non permissiveness of the host to parasitic infections (Chapters 1, 2, and 12), on induced mechanisms including the genera tion of parasite-specific T-cell lines and clones (Chapter 6), and on the generation of monoclonal antibodies (Chapters 4 and 5) to parasite antigens of distinct de velopmental stages. Great progress has been made in characterizing parasite antigens capable of inducing a protective response in the vaccinated host; further progress in this area strongly depends on biochemistry and molecular biology with the long-term goal of synthesizing such antigens chemically or producing them by means of recombinant DNA technology (Chapter 4).

Author : Marvin Howard Brunson,Leon W. Coles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Alfalfa weevil
ISBN : UIUC:30112018982915

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The Introduction, Release, and Recovery of Parasites of the Alfalfa Weevil in Eastern United States by Marvin Howard Brunson,Leon W. Coles Pdf

Author : United States. Agricultural Research Service
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Helminths
ISBN : MINN:31951002834057A

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Preventing and Controlling Internal Parasites of Hogs by United States. Agricultural Research Service Pdf

Author : N.E. Beckage
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1997-07-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 041207401X

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Parasites and Pathogens by N.E. Beckage Pdf

When Nancy Beckage and I first met in Lynn Riddiford's laboratory at the University of Washington in the mid 1970s, the fields of parasitology, behavior, and endocrinology were thriving and far-flung--disciplines in no serious danger of intersecting. There were rumors that they might have some common ground: Behavioural Aspects of Parasite Transmission (Canning and Wright, 1972) had just emerged, with exciting news not only of the way parasites themselves behave, but also of Machiavellian worms that caused intermediate hosts to shift fundamental responses to light and disturbance, becoming in the process more vulnerable to predation by the next host (Holmes and Bethel, 1972). Meanwhile, biologists such as Miriam Rothschild (see Dedication), G. B. Solomon (1969), and Lynn Riddiford herself (1975) had suggested that the endocrinological rami of parasitism might be subtle and pervasive. In general, however, para fications sites were viewed as aberrant organisms, perhaps good for a few just-so stories prior to turning our attention once again to real animals. In the decade that followed, Pauline Lawrence (1986a,b), Davy Jones (Jones et al. , 1986), Nancy Beckage (Beckage, 1985; Beckage and Templeton, 1986), and others, including many in this volume, left no doubt that the host-parasite combination in insect systems was physiologically distinct from its unparasitized counterpart in ways that went beyond gross pathology.

Author : Benjamin Schwartz,Marion Imes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1930
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:30000090209911

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Parasites and Parasitic Diseases of Horses by Benjamin Schwartz,Marion Imes Pdf

Author : Gerald W. Esch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2004-02-12
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0521894573

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Parasites, People, and Places by Gerald W. Esch Pdf

Professor Gerald W. Esch, one of the world's leading ecological parasitologists, presents a series of essays on classic examples of field parasitology. The essays focus on the significance of the work and its contribution to the field but also on the people and, particularly, the sites at which the work took place. Taken together, they represent a beautifully written account of the development of an entire field of scientific endeavor spanning a period of 50 years or more. While the essays are not meant to be academic in a scientific sense, they contain a great deal of science. The book will be of great value to all parasitologists and ecologists, but also to anyone interested in how biological field work is carried out and how it contributes to greater understanding of the natural world.

Author : R. Poulin,Robert Poulin,Leslie H. Chappell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0521534127

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Parasites in Marine Systems by R. Poulin,Robert Poulin,Leslie H. Chappell Pdf

Synthesises the available key information on the biology of marine parasites and their hosts.

Author : Maurice Crowther Hall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : Sheep
ISBN : HARVARD:32044106444086

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Parasites and Parasitic Diseases of Sheep by Maurice Crowther Hall Pdf

Author : John Valentine Schaffner,Charles Louis Griswold
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1934
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : UIUC:30112019309688

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Macrolepidoptera and Their Parasites Reared from Field Collections in the Northeastern Part of the United States by John Valentine Schaffner,Charles Louis Griswold Pdf

This publication is the result of studies begun in 1915 at the Melrose Highlands, Mass., laboratory of the Bureau of Entomology to determine the native hosts of the introduced parasites of the gypsy moth (Porthetria dispar L.) and the brown-tail moth (Nygmia phaeorrhoea Don.), and to determine the possible effect of these parasites on the native hosts.

Author : Cooper Curtice
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Parasites and parasitic diseases
ISBN : UBBS:UBBS-00050178

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The Animal Parasites of Sheep by Cooper Curtice Pdf