An Ecological Approach to Acanthocephalan Physiology

by D.W.T. Crompton and Alastair Crompton

Acanthocephalan worms are parasitic throughout their life cycles and the environments they experience are to be found in the bodies of vertebrates, in which they achieve sexual maturity and in the tissues of arthropods, in which they develop. This monograph, first published in 1970, aims to relate present knowledge of acanthocephalan physiology to the physical and biotic factors occurring in the environments occupied at different stages of the life...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052110470X
• ISBN13: 9780521104708
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"