Fur, Fleas, and Flukes
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Fur, Fleas, and Flukes
The Fascinating World of Parasites
Stock, Michael
University of Toronto Press
11/2024
326
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9781487509224
15 a 20 dias
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Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Of Wolves and Worms
1. Pinworms, Primates, and Porcupines: How Parasites Travelled the World
2. Stone Cold Killers: Trichinella in the Arctic
3. Who's Your Daddy? Lice on Great Apes
4. Giants Crawl among Us: Giant Liver Flukes
5. Of Beetles and Beavers
6. Stranded Whales: A Fluke Accident?
7. How the Zebra Got Its Stripes
8. Ornaments and Parasites
9. The Night of the Vampire
10. Your Brain on Worms: Nature's Biological Weapon
11. The Tale of the Tape: The World's Longest Parasite
12. Death by Raccoon
13. Blood, Moths, and Tears
14. The Manchurian Parasite
15. A Ghost of a Chance
16. Sex and the Single Schistosome
17. The Trickster: Coyotes and Their Parasites
18. Fleas: The Inside Story
Conclusion: The Greatest Show on Earth
Index
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Of Wolves and Worms
1. Pinworms, Primates, and Porcupines: How Parasites Travelled the World
2. Stone Cold Killers: Trichinella in the Arctic
3. Who's Your Daddy? Lice on Great Apes
4. Giants Crawl among Us: Giant Liver Flukes
5. Of Beetles and Beavers
6. Stranded Whales: A Fluke Accident?
7. How the Zebra Got Its Stripes
8. Ornaments and Parasites
9. The Night of the Vampire
10. Your Brain on Worms: Nature's Biological Weapon
11. The Tale of the Tape: The World's Longest Parasite
12. Death by Raccoon
13. Blood, Moths, and Tears
14. The Manchurian Parasite
15. A Ghost of a Chance
16. Sex and the Single Schistosome
17. The Trickster: Coyotes and Their Parasites
18. Fleas: The Inside Story
Conclusion: The Greatest Show on Earth
Index
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popular science; biology; ecology; parasitology; evolutionary biology; parasites; fleas; worms; tape worms; blood flukes; organisms; symbiotics; wild mammals; wildlife diseases; racoons; coyotes; wolves
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Of Wolves and Worms
1. Pinworms, Primates, and Porcupines: How Parasites Travelled the World
2. Stone Cold Killers: Trichinella in the Arctic
3. Who's Your Daddy? Lice on Great Apes
4. Giants Crawl among Us: Giant Liver Flukes
5. Of Beetles and Beavers
6. Stranded Whales: A Fluke Accident?
7. How the Zebra Got Its Stripes
8. Ornaments and Parasites
9. The Night of the Vampire
10. Your Brain on Worms: Nature's Biological Weapon
11. The Tale of the Tape: The World's Longest Parasite
12. Death by Raccoon
13. Blood, Moths, and Tears
14. The Manchurian Parasite
15. A Ghost of a Chance
16. Sex and the Single Schistosome
17. The Trickster: Coyotes and Their Parasites
18. Fleas: The Inside Story
Conclusion: The Greatest Show on Earth
Index
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Of Wolves and Worms
1. Pinworms, Primates, and Porcupines: How Parasites Travelled the World
2. Stone Cold Killers: Trichinella in the Arctic
3. Who's Your Daddy? Lice on Great Apes
4. Giants Crawl among Us: Giant Liver Flukes
5. Of Beetles and Beavers
6. Stranded Whales: A Fluke Accident?
7. How the Zebra Got Its Stripes
8. Ornaments and Parasites
9. The Night of the Vampire
10. Your Brain on Worms: Nature's Biological Weapon
11. The Tale of the Tape: The World's Longest Parasite
12. Death by Raccoon
13. Blood, Moths, and Tears
14. The Manchurian Parasite
15. A Ghost of a Chance
16. Sex and the Single Schistosome
17. The Trickster: Coyotes and Their Parasites
18. Fleas: The Inside Story
Conclusion: The Greatest Show on Earth
Index
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