Medical and Applied Malacology Crossing Boundaries
Medical and Applied Malacology Crossing Boundaries

Author: Gisele Orlandi Introíni

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2014-10-16

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 1443869414

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This book provides an overview of the XI International Congress on Medical and Applied Malacology: “Crossing Boundaries: Integrative Approaches to Malacology”. The event was held at the State University of Rio de Janeiro between the 25th and 29th of September 2012. A number of the plenary lecturers from the conference were invited to contribute their papers to these proceedings, as were speakers whose papers were eligible for student awards. The volume contains articles on bioprospecting methods; medical malacology; aquaculture; biomonitoring; alien species; reproductive and developmental biology; interdisciplinary teaching and education; and trends in malacological research. The information contained here will convey to the general public the importance of mollusks to human and animal health, as well as their applications in various areas of knowledge.

Thorp and Covich's Freshwater Invertebrates
Thorp and Covich's Freshwater Invertebrates

Author: Cristina Damborenea

Publisher: Academic Press

Published: 2020-06-26

Total Pages: 1048

ISBN-13: 0128042664

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Thorp and Covich's Freshwater Invertebrates, Volume 5: Keys to Neotropical and Antarctic Fauna, Fourth Edition, covers inland water invertebrates of the world. It began with Ecology and General Biology, Volume One (Thorp and Rogers, editors, 2015) and was followed by three volumes emphasizing taxonomic keys to general invertebrates of the Nearctic (2016), neotropical hexapods (2018), and general invertebrates of the Palearctic (2019). All volumes are designed for multiple uses and levels of expertise by professionals in universities, government agencies, private companies, and graduate and undergraduate students. - Includes zoogeographic coverage of the entire Neotropics, from central Mexico and the Caribbean Islands, to the tip of South America - Provides identification keys for aquatic invertebrates to genus or species level for many groups, with keys progressing from higher to lower taxonomic levels - Contains terminology and morphology, materials preparation and preservation, and references

Flukes and Snails Revisited
Flukes and Snails Revisited

Author: D. Rollinson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9780521891066

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Summarises the current state of various studies investigating snail-parasite relationships.