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Big fleas have little fleas : how discoveries of invertebrate diseases are advancing modern science

Title
Big fleas have little fleas : how discoveries of invertebrate diseases are advancing modern science / Elizabeth W. Davidson.
Author
Davidson, Elizabeth W.
Publication
Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c2006.

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xiv, 198 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
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Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-190) and index.
Contents
Pasteur, silkworms, and the germ theory of disease -- Of caterpillars and crystals : bacterial toxins as insecticides -- Out of Africa : bacteria against mosquitoes and blackflies -- The virus that cures : the baculovirus gene expression system -- Scourge of the South Pacific : the rhinoceros beetle -- Bug against bug : invertebrate antibiotics -- Saved by a crab : Limulus amoebocyte lysate assay -- Sea sickness : diseases of edible shellfish -- Deadly hitchhikers : crustaceans and cholera -- Cloak and dagger : nematodes aginst insect pests -- Bad news for the good guys : diseases and parasites of bees -- The mysterious reappearing fungus : gypsy moth pathogen -- The sixth plague of Egypt : fungus and the desert locust -- Ad infinitum : insect symbiotic organisms -- Postscript : landmarks that tie our stories together.
Call Number
JSE 07-360
ISBN
  • 0816526125 (hc : alk. paper)
  • 9780816526123 (hc : alk. paper)
  • 0816525447 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780816525447 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0978816525447
LCCN
  • 2006006192
  • 0978816525447
OCLC
64289255
Author
Davidson, Elizabeth W.
Title
Big fleas have little fleas : how discoveries of invertebrate diseases are advancing modern science / Elizabeth W. Davidson.
Imprint
Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c2006.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-190) and index.
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0978816525447
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JSE 07-360
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