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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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- Description
- xiv, 198 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Subjects
- 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.
- Connect to:
- Other Standard Identifier
- 0978816525447
- Research Call Number
- JSE 07-360