Parasitic flatworms
Subtitle: molecular biology, biochemistry, immunology and physiology
By: edited by Aaron G. Maule and Nikki J. Marks.
Contributors: Marks, Nikki J.; Maule, Aaron G.
Publisher: CABI Pub.
Published: 2006
Place of publication: wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK; Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780851990279
Subjects: Platyhelminthes.; Platyhelminths.; Cestode Infections.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: The evolution of parasitism in flatworms / D.T.J. Littlewood; value: Genomes and genomics of parasitic flatworms / David A. Johnston; value: Genetic discrimination of echinococcus species and strains / Don P. McManus; value: Ribosomal DNA variation in parasitic flatworms / David Blair; value: Genetic studies on monogeneas with emphasis on gyrodactylus / Carey O. Cunningham and Iveta Matejusová; value: The schistosome transcriptome / Sergio Verjovski-Almeida and Ricardo DeMarco; value: Transgenic flatworms / Christoph G. Grevelding; value: Immunobiology of schistosomes / Sean G. Forrester and Edward J. Pearce; value: Cestode infection: immunological considerations from host and tapeworm perspectives / Derek M. McKay and Rodney A. Webb; value: Parasitic flatworms: signal transduction at the host-parasite interface / Timothy P. Yoshino, Jon J. Vermeire and Judith Humphries; value: Parasite effects on the snail host transcriptome / Matty Knight and Nithya Raghavan; value: Developments in the chemotherapy of parasitic flatworms / Gerald C. Coles; value: Drug resistance in schistosomes / Tim A. Day and Sanna Botros; value: Praziquantel: mechanism of action / Robert M. Greenberg; value: Cestode vaccine development / Marshall W. Lightowlers; value: The development of a schistosome vaccine / R. Alan Wilson and Patricia S. Coulson; value: Flatworm parasite proteomics / Russell M. Morphew, John Barrett and Peter M. Brophy; value: Proteases in trematode biology / John P. Dalton ... [et al.]; value: Signalling molecules and nerve-muscle function / Aaron G. Maule, Nikki J. Marks and Tim Day; value: Unusual aspects of metabolism in flatworm parasites / Aloysius G.M. Tielens and Jaap J. van Hellemond; value: Glycoconjugate structures / Manfred Wuhrer and Rudolf Geyer; value: Gene silencing in flatworms using rna interference / Patrick J. Skelly.