Infectious Diseases in Primates: Behavior, Ecology and EvolutionThis title includes the following features: The first book to synthesiseand integrate the previously disparate areas of primate socioecology, parasitefunctional categories, host defences, and theoretical models of disease spread.; Organizes hypotheses according to parasite traits such as transmission mode,host specificity and virulence.; Develops a new co-evolutionary framework forinvestigating parasites and primate social evolution at empirical andtheoretical scales.; Ideal graduate seminar course material. |
Contents
1 Questions terminology and underlying principles | 1 |
2 Diversity and characteristics of primate parasites | 22 |
predictions and rationale | 57 |
4 Hostparasite dynamics and epidemiological principles | 98 |
the immune system and behavioral counterstrategies | 134 |
6 Infectious disease and primate social systems | 176 |
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Infectious Diseases in Primates: Behavior, Ecology and Evolution Charles Nunn,Sonia Altizer Limited preview - 2006 |
Infectious Diseases in Primates:Behavior, Ecology and Evolution: Behavior ... Charles Nunn,Sonia Altizer No preview available - 2006 |
Infectious Diseases in Primates: Behavior, Ecology and Evolution Charles L. Nunn,Sonia M. Altizer No preview available - 2006 |
Common terms and phrases
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