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  title info:
    title: Big fleas have little fleas
    sub title: how discoveries of invertebrate diseases are advancing modern science
  name:
    name part: Davidson, Elizabeth W.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: azu
    date issued: 2006
    copyright date: 2006
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiv, 198 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
  abstract: "In this book, Elizabeth Davidson shares amazing stories about diseases of insects and other invertebrates important to people - and about the scientists who learned to use those diseases to control pests and create products beneficial to humans. Focusing on insect-microbial interactions crucial to public health, she tells detective stories ranging across global history, from the silkworm farms of nineteenth-century Japan to the research labs of modern America."--Jacket.
  table of contents: List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Pasteur, silkworms, and the germ theory of disease -- 2. Of caterpillars and crystals : bacterial toxins as insecticides -- 3. Out of Africa : bacteria against mosquitoes and blackflies -- 4. The virus that cures : the baculovirus gene expression system -- 5. Scourge of the South Pacific : the rhinoceros beetle -- 6. Bug against bug : invertebrate antibiotics -- 7. Saved by a crab : Limulus amoebocyte lysate assay -- 8. Sea sickness : diseases of edible shellfish -- 9. Deadly hitchhikers : crustaceans and cholera -- 10. Cloak and dagger : nematodes against insect pests -- 11. Bad news for the good guys : diseases and parasites of bees -- 12. The mysterious reappearing fungus : gypsy moth pathogen -- 13. The sixth plague of Egypt : fungus and the desert locust -- 14. Ad infinitum : insect symbiotic organisms -- 15. Postscript : landmarks that tie our stories together -- Suggested readdings -- Illustration credits -- Index.
  note: Elizabeth W. Davidson.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-190) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Invertebrates
    topic: Diseases
  subject:
    topic: Pathogenic microorganisms
  subject:
    topic: Invertebrates
    topic: parasitology
  subject:
    topic: Bacteria
    topic: pathogenicity
  subject:
    topic: Baculoviridae
    topic: pathogenicity
  subject:
    topic: Fungi
    topic: pathogenicity
  subject:
    topic: Invertébrés
    topic: Maladies
  subject:
    topic: Micro-organismes pathogènes
  subject:
    topic: Invertebrates
    topic: Diseases
  subject:
    topic: Pathogenic microorganisms
  classification: QR325 .D38 2006
  classification: 592
  classification: 2007 A-357
  classification: QW 70 D252b 2006
  classification: UA 5.2:F 32
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    title info:
      title: Big fleas have little fleas
    name:
      name part: Davidson, Elizabeth W.
    origin info:
      publisher: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, ©2006
    identifier: (OCoLC)681290023
  identifier: 0816526125
  identifier: 9780816526123
  identifier: 0816525447
  identifier: 9780816525447
  identifier: 0978816525447
  identifier: 2006006192
  identifier: http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip069/2006006192.html
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    physical location: TAG TAGC
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 060222
    record change date: 20240807185402.1
    record identifier: in00004810058
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng