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Scott L. Gardner
Title page
Sue Ann Gardner
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Preface
1. Introduction to Animal Parasitology
Scott L. Gardner; Daniel R. Brooks; and Klaus Rohde
2. Phylogenetic Systematics in Parasitology
Anindo Choudhury
3. Helminth Identification and Diagnostics: Basic Molecular Techniques
Anindo Choudhury and Scott L. Gardner
4. Hosts, Reservoirs, and Vectors
Matthew G. Bolek; Kyle D. Gustafson; and Gabriel J. Langford
5. Life Cycles
6. Behavioral Parasitology
Megan Wise de Valdez
7. Biostatistics for Parasitologists: A Painless Introduction
Jenő Reiczigel; Marco Marozzi; Fábián Ibolya; and Lajos Rózsa
8. Distributional Ecology of Parasites
A. Townsend Peterson
9. The Coccidia Proper: Important Apicomplexa Other than Haemoprotozoa
Donald W. Duszynski
10. Haemosporida (Order): The “Malaria Parasites”
Susan L. Perkins and Spencer C. Galen
11. Trypanosoma (Genus)
Ana Maria Jansen; Samanta C. Chagas Xavier; and André Luiz Rodrigues Roque
12. Leishmania (Genus) and Leishmaniasis
Mary Ann McDowell and Jennifer Robichaud
13. Myxozoa (Subphylum)
Terrence L. Miller
14. Mesozoa (Phyla Dicyemida and Orthonectida)
Sarah R. Catalano
15. Introduction to Endoparasitic Platyhelminths (Phylum Platyhelminthes)
Larry S. Roberts; John J. Janovy, Jr.; Steven A. Nadler; and Scott L. Gardner
16. Introduction to Cestodes (Class Cestoda)
17. Introduction to Cyclophyllidea (Order)
18. Taenia (Genus)
Sumiya Ganzorig and Scott L. Gardner
19. Echinococcus (Genus)
Akira Ito and Scott L. Gardner
20. Proteocephalidae (Family)
Tomáš Scholz and Roman Kuchta
21. Bothriocephalidea (Order)
Jorge Falcón-Ordaz and Luis García-Prieto
22. Diphyllobothriidea (Order): The Broad Tapeworms
23. Trypanorhyncha (Order)
Francisco Zaragoza-Tapia and Scott Monks
24. Summaries of Some Elasmobranch Cestodes
Luis García-Prieto; Omar Lagunas-Calvo; Brenda Atziri García-García; and Berenice Adán-Torres
25. Amphilinidea (Order)
Klaus Rohde
26. Gyrocotylidea (Order): The Most Primitive Group of Tapeworms
Willi E. R. Xylander and Klaus Rohde
27. Aspidogastrea (Subclass)
28. Summary of the Digenea (Subclass): Insights and Lessons from a Prominent Parasitologist
Robin M. Overstreet
29. Introduction to Diplostomida (Order)
Lucrecia Acosta Soto; Bernard Fried; and Rafael Toledo
30. Aporocotylidae (Family): Fish Blood Flukes
Russell Q.-Y. Yong
31. Introduction to Plagiorchiida (Order)
Rafael Toledo; Bernard Fried; and Lucrecia Acosta Soto
32. Bivesiculata (Suborder): Small, Rare, but Important
Thomas H. Cribb and Scott C. Cutmore
33. Echinostomata (Suborder)
34. Haplosplanchnata (Suborder): Two Hosts with Half the Guts
Daniel C. Huston
35. Hemiurata (Suborder)
36. Monorchiata (Suborder): Two Families Separated by Salinity
Nicholas Q.-X. Wee
37. Opisthorchis (Genus)
38. Allocreadiidae (Family)
Gerardo Pérez-Ponce de León; David Iván Hernández-Mena; and Brenda Solórzano-García
39. Haematoloechidae (Family)
Virginia León-Règagnon
40. Lecithodendriidae (Family)
Jeffrey M. Lotz
41. Opecoelidae (Family): The Richest Trematode Family
Storm B. Martin
42. Introduction to Endoparasitic Nematodes (Phylum Nemata)
43. Trichuroidea and Trichinelloidea (Superfamilies)
María del Rosario Robles and Rocío Callejón Fernández
44. Ascaridoidea (Superfamily): Large Intestinal Nematodes
45. Heterakoidea (Superfamily): Cosmopolitan Gut-Dwelling Parasites of Tetrapods
F. Agustín Jiménez-Ruiz
46. Oxyurida (Order): Pinworms
Haylee J. Weaver
47. Spirurida (Order)
Valentin Radev
48. Camallanina (Suborder): Guinea Worm and Related Nematodes
49. Filarioidea (Superfamily)
Juliana Notarnicola
50. Strongyloidea and Trichostrongyloidea (Superfamilies): Bursate Nematodes
Larry S. Roberts; John J. Janovy, Jr.; Steven A. Nadler; Valentin Radev; and Scott L. Gardner
51. Nematomorpha (Phylum): Horsehair Worms
Matthew G. Bolek and Ben Hanelt
52. Acanthocephala (Phylum)
Scott Monks
53. Pentastomida: Endoparasitic Arthropods
Chris T. McAllister
54. Monogenea (Class)
Griselda Pulido-Flores
55. Transversotrematidae (Family): Ectoparasitic Trematodes
Scott C. Cutmore and Thomas H. Cribb
56. Hirudinea (Subclass): Parasitic Leeches
Alejandro Oceguera-Figueroa and Sebastian Kvist
57. Siphonaptera (Order): Fleas
Marcela Lareschi
58. Phthiraptera (Order): Lice
Lajos Rózsa and Haylee J. Weaver
59. Triatominae (Subfamily): Kissing Bugs
60. Acari (Order): Mites
David Evans Walter; Gerald W. Krantz; and Evert E. Lindquist
61. Acari (Order): Ticks
Darci Moraes Barros-Battesti; Valeria Castilho Onofrio; and Filipe Dantas-Torres
62. Acari (Order): Ticks, Keys
63. Acari (Order): Ticks, Lists of Species
64. A Short Introduction to Marine Parasitology: Marine Parasites of Economic and Medical Importance
Klaus Rohde and Robin M. Overstreet
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