Title: Biology of populations;
Authors: Sladen, Brenda K.,; Bang, Frederik B.; Bang, Frederik B.
Date: 1969
Publisher: American Elsevier Pub. Co.,
Physical description: xxii, 449 p. illus. 24 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: R
Abstract: This book provides a collection of essays on population dynamics and other aspects of ecology, population genetics, ethology, and the nature of interactions of populations in disease. These essays illustrate how animal and plant biology supports public health.
Contents: Introduction / Fredrik B. Bang -- Population growth of bacteria / Byron S. Tepper -- Population growth of viruses / William D. Hillis -- The ecology of the gastrointestinal tract / R. Bradley Sack -- Comparative demography / Brenda K. Sladen -- Experimental demography with laboratory invertebrates / Brenda K. Sladen -- The ecology of animal communities / Brenda K. Sladen -- Fluctuations of vertebrate populations / Charles H. Southwick -- Man's ecological environment / George B. Schaller -- Nucleic acids and hereditary mechanisms in microorganisms / Roger M. Herriott -- The biochemistry of some genetic processes / Roger M. Herriott -- microbial resistance to drugs / Bryon S. Tepper -- The cellular basis of heredity / Fredrik B. Bang -- Animal population genetics / Brenda K. Sladen and Bernice H. Cohen -- The genetics of insecticide resistance / Lloyd E. Rozeboom and Francis S. L. Williamson -- Genetic effects of radiations in human populations / William D. Hillis -- Introduction to behavior studies / Fredrik B. Bang -- Animal communication / William J. L. Sladen -- Social organization in some birds and mammals / William J. L. Sladen -- Population dynamics and social behavior of domestic rodents / Charles H. Southwick -- Social behavior of nonhuman primates / Charles H. Southwick -- Human social behavior / Anthony J. Reading -- Human group aggression / Jerome D. Frank -- Variation in disease susceptibility / Fredrik B. Bang -- The evolution of disease / Fredrik B. Bang -- Experimental epidemiology / Fredrik B. Bang --Viral-induced tumors in populations / Harvey Rabin -- The ecology of schistosomiasis / Fredrik B. Bang -- Arthropod populations as vectors and reservoirs of disease / Lloyd E. Rozeboom -- Vertebrate population as reservoirs of disease / Keerti V. Shah -- Senescence as a biological problem / Fredrik B. Bang.
Subject headings (LCSH): Animal populations.; Population biology.; Social medicine; Social psychology.