Big Fleas Have Little Fleas
Subtitle: How Discoveries of Invertebrate Diseases Are Advancing Modern Science
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: August 17, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9780816525447
Subjects: Pathogenic microorganisms; Life Sciences - Zoology - Invertebrates; Medical; Science; Microbiology; History; Invertebrates; Diseases
Description: "In this book, Elizabeth Davidson shares amazing stories about diseases of insects and other invertebrates important to people - and about the scientists who learned to use those diseases to control pests and create products beneficial to humans. Focusing on insect-microbial interactions crucial to public health, she tells detective stories ranging across global history, from the silkworm farms of nineteenth-century Japan to the research labs of modern America."--Jacket.