Infectious Disease and Host-Pathogen Evolution

ISBN: 9780521126557 出版年：2004 页码：394 Krishna R Dronamraju Cambridge University Press

Part I. J. B. S. Haldane: 1. Haldane's ideas in biology with special reference to disease and evolution James F. Crow 2. JBS Haldane and the malaria hypothesis D. J. Weatherall Part II. malarial parasites: 3. Evolutionary genetics of Plasmodium Falciparum, the agent of malignant malaria Stephen M. Rich and Francisco J. Ayala 4. Evolutionary biology of malaria parasites Ananias A. Escalante and Altaf A. Lal 5. G6PD deficiency and malarial resistance in humans: insights from evolutionary genetic analyses Sara A. Tishkoff and Brian C. Verrelli 6. The enigma of vivax malaria and erythrocyte duffy-negativity Peter A. Zimmerman Part III. Other Parasites: 7. Influenza evolution Robin M. Bush and Nancy J. Cox 8. Free-living to free-wheeling: the evolution of Vibrio cholerae from innocence to infamy Rita R. Colwell, Shah M. Faruque and G. Balakrish Nair 9. Evolutionary dynamics of Daphnia and their microparasites Tom Little and Dieter Ebert 10. Human susceptibility to visceral Leishmaniasis (Leishmania donovani) and to Schistosomiasis (Schistosoma mansoni) is controlled by major genetic loci A. Dessein, B. Bucheton, L. Argiro, N. M. A. Elwali, V. Rodrigues, C. Chevillard, S. Marquet, Helia Dessein, S. H. El-Safi and L. Abel Part IV. Genetic and Evolutionary Considerations: 11. The evolution of pathogen virulence in response to animal and public health interventions Andrew F. Read, Sylvain Gandon, Sean Nee and Margaret J. Mackinnon 12. Infection and the diversity of regulatory DNA Lindsay G. Cowell, N. Avrion Mitchison and Brigitte Muller 13. Genetic epidemiology of infectious diseases: the first half century Newton E. Morton 14. The impact of human genetic diversity in the transmission and severity of infectious diseases Michel Tibayrenc 15. Evolution and the etiology of diabetes mellitus Kyle D. Cochran and Gregory M. Cochran 16. The future of human evolution Luca Cavalli-Sforza.