Myxozoan Evolution, Ecology and Development

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Okamura, Beth (Editor), Gruhl, Alexander (Editor), Bartholomew, Jerri L. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Parasitology.; Developmental biology.; Aquatic ecology.; Evolutionary biology.; Invertebrates.; Life Sciences.; Evolutionary Biology.; Developmental Biology.; Freshwater & Marine Ecology.

This book provides an up-to-date review of the biology of myxozoans, which represent a divergent clade of endoparasitic cnidarians. Myxozoans are of fundamental interest in understanding how early diverging metazoans have adopted parasitic lifestyles, and are also of considerable economic and ecolog...