Description |
1 online resource (xii, 384 pages) : illustrations. |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
Description |
text file |
Series |
Oxford series in ecology and evolution
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Oxford series in ecology and evolution.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 296-367) and index. |
Summary |
An advanced textbook suitable for graduate level students as well as professional researchers in the fields of behavioural ecology, primatology, conservation biology, biological anthropology, public health and wildlife epidemiology. |
Contents |
Contents; 1 Questions, terminology, and underlying principles; 2 Diversity and characteristics of primate parasites; 3 Primate socioecology and disease risk: predictions and rationale; 4 Hostparasite dynamics and epidemiological principles; 5 Host defenses: the immune system and behavioral counterstrategies; 6 Infectious disease and primate social systems; 7 Parasites and primate conservation; 8 From nonhuman primates to human health and evolution; 9 Concluding remarks and future directions; References; Index. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Primates -- Diseases.
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Primates -- Diseases. |
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Communicable diseases.
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Communicable diseases. |
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Communicable diseases -- Environmental aspects.
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Communicable diseases -- Environmental aspects. |
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Primate Diseases. |
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Behavior, Animal. |
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Communicable Diseases -- veterinary. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Added Author |
Altizer, Sonia M.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Nunn, Charles L. Infectious diseases in primates. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006 0198565852 0198565844 (DLC) 2006000425 (OCoLC)62888951 |
ISBN |
9780191513718 (electronic book) |
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0191513717 (electronic book) |
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0198565844 (Cloth) |
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0198565852 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780198565857 |
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9780198565840 |
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