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Big Fleas Have Little Fleas.


Big Fleas Have Little Fleas

Elizabeth W. Davidson

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Big Fleas Have Little Fleas: How Discoveries of Invertebrate invertebrate (ĭn'vûr`təbrət, –brāt'), any animal lacking a backbone. The invertebrates include the tunicates and lancelets of phylum Chordata, as well as all animal phyla other than Chordata.  Diseases are Advancing Modern Science makes a case for the history of insect-microbial interactions, offering up stories from around the world to trace these interactions and their impact on public health. Bug-against-bug battles have wide-ranging impacts on human conditions: they offer up lessons for fighting infection and surviving environmental degradation which can be keys to human health too. So while BIG FLEAS HAVE LITTLE FLEAS might initially seem a specialty science title on microorganism microorganism /mi·cro·or·gan·ism/ (-or´gah-nizm) a microscopic organism; those of medical interest include bacteria, fungi, and protozoa.  natural history, it holds valuable lessons for college-level health sciences students as well.
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Title Annotation:Big Fleas Have Little Fleas: How Discoveries of Invertebrate Diseases are Advancing Modern Science
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Date:Dec 1, 2006
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