Infectious Diseases in Primates: Behavior, Ecology and Evolution

ISBN-13: 9780198565857 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 400 str.

Charles Nunn; Sonia Altizer

Opis

In combination with predation and competition for resources, infectious disease is a key ecological factor that influences the evolution of animal mating and social systems. Studies also illuminate the central role that infectious disease plays in the lives of some mammals.

Recenzje

... a structured and thoughtful synthesis of a field that has never before been unified ... On the whole, the publication of this book marks, if not the birth of a new field, its transition from childhood into adolescence.

O autorze

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, USA . Her research focuses on the ecology and evolution of host-pathogen interactions in wild animal populations.