Parasites and Their World Records in Their Fight for Survival

Parasites are animals that enter plants, animals and humans – but are not welcome. Therefore they had to develop strategies for invasion and survival – outside and inside of hosts. For this purpose they developed amazing, often unbelievable skills during evolution. Thirteen of them are presented in...

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Autor principal: Mehlhorn, Heinz
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7122200/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21396-0_3
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description Parasites are animals that enter plants, animals and humans – but are not welcome. Therefore they had to develop strategies for invasion and survival – outside and inside of hosts. For this purpose they developed amazing, often unbelievable skills during evolution. Thirteen of them are presented in this chapter showing that they are fit for the future thus threatening mankind, if there are no precautions in the future.
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spelling pubmed-71222002020-04-06 Parasites and Their World Records in Their Fight for Survival Mehlhorn, Heinz Progress in Parasitology Article Parasites are animals that enter plants, animals and humans – but are not welcome. Therefore they had to develop strategies for invasion and survival – outside and inside of hosts. For this purpose they developed amazing, often unbelievable skills during evolution. Thirteen of them are presented in this chapter showing that they are fit for the future thus threatening mankind, if there are no precautions in the future. 2011-05-03 /pmc/articles/PMC7122200/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21396-0_3 Text en © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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