商品簡介
Valkiunas (ecology, Vilnius University, Lithuania) summarizes the past century of research on bird haemosporidians and offers an illustrated guide to avian malaria parasites and their close relatives. The first section of the book provides information on the history, life cycles, classification, ultrastructure, specificity, pathogenicity, distribution, and ecology of bird haemosporidians. It also discusses the influence of parasites on wild birds and the role of transcontinental migration in the distribution of pathogens. The second section presents data on 200 species of bird haemosporidians, as well as information for each taxon, and provides keys for identification of families, genera, and species of the parasites. The book has been published previously in Russian and French. Annotation c2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
