Infectious Diseases in Primates: Behavior, Ecology and Evolution

Infectious Diseases in Primates: Behavior, Ecology and Evolution

ISBN-10:
0198565852
ISBN-13:
9780198565857
Pub. Date:
06/29/2006
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
ISBN-10:
0198565852
ISBN-13:
9780198565857
Pub. Date:
06/29/2006
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Infectious Diseases in Primates: Behavior, Ecology and Evolution

Infectious Diseases in Primates: Behavior, Ecology and Evolution

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Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780198565857
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 06/29/2006
Series: Oxford Series in Ecology and Evolution
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 400
Product dimensions: 9.09(w) x 6.30(h) x 0.81(d)

About the Author

Charles Nunn is a research scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of California in Berkeley, USA. His research interests include primate behaviour, disease ecology and comparative biology.
Sonia Altizer is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Ecology of the University of Georgia. Her research focuses on the ecology and evolution of host-pathogen interactions in wild animal populations.

Table of Contents

1. Questions, Terminology, and Underlying Principles2. Diversity and Characteristics of Primate Parasites3. Primate Socioecology and Disease Risk: Predictions and Rationale4. Host-Parasite Dynamics and Epidemiological Principles5. Host Defenses: The Immune System and Behavioral Counterstrategies6. Infectious Disease and Primate Social Systems7. Parasites and Primate Conservation8. From Nonhuman Primates to Human Health and Evolution9. Concluding Remarks and Future Directions
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