Infectious Diseases in Primates: Behavior, Ecology and Evolution
By Charles Nunn, Sonia Altizer
Publisher: --
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 2006-06-29
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0198565852
ISBN-13 / EAN: 978-0198565857
Description
This title includes the following features: The first book to synthesise and integrate the previously disparate areas of primate socioecology, parasite functional 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 for investigating parasites and primate social evolution at empirical and theoretical scales.; Ideal graduate seminar course material.
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