The art of being a parasite / Claude Combes ; translated by Daniel Simberloff.

  • Combes, Claude.
Date:
2005
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About this work

Publication/Creation

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2005.

Physical description

291 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: what is symbiosis? -- Arms races -- How does one become a parasite? -- The profession of parasite -- The profession of host -- The profession of mutualist -- Alice and the red queen -- Sexual selection and parasitism -- Parasites in space and time -- Emerging diseases and the future arms race.

Language note

Translated from French.

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ISBN

  • 0226114295
  • 9780226114293
  • 0226114384
  • 9780226114385