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Dr. Duszynski, is Professor Emeritus Biology and past Chair of the Department of Biology, The University of New Mexico (UNM). He spent 33 years in academia, publishing numerous articles, monographs, and books, secured private, state and federal grants exceeding $8 million, and mentored > 25 masters and doctoral students and numerous undergraduates in his laboratory, before spending 8 years in administration. During his 41 year tenure at UNM, he taught many courses including parasitology, tropical biology and marine invertebrate biology, and took >1000 students to the neotropics (Belize, Jamaica, Mexico). Don has been a Visiting Research Associate Professor, Department of Physiology & Biochemistry, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, a Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, and Visiting Research Scholar, Kyoto University, Japan. Among the honors received are the Distinguished Service Award and the Clark P. Read Mentor Award from the American Society of Parasitologists (ASP), and the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Department of Biology, Colorado State University.Dr. Kvicerová has been focusing for more than 10 years on morphology, taxonomy, and phylogenetic evolutionary and population-genetics research on several model systems of apicomplexan parasites, particularly on eimerians in mammals and haemogregarines in reptile hosts. Her research is mainly related to the areas of coevolutionary studies between host and parasites, and to the host-specificity of apicomplexans. She has participated in several grant projects focused on all of these topics and is a mentor of both graduate and undergraduate students. She also is employed part-time at the Biology Centre, Institute of Parasitology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, and as a veterinarian in a private vet office, both in Ceské Budejovice, Czech RepublicDr. Seville has spent 30 years investigating the taxonomy, systematics and biology of coccidia from a variety of host groups including wild mammals, reptiles, and amphibians. He received a NATO-NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship to work at the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and has been a visiting research associate at the University of New Mexico
The fundamental concept of The Biology and Identification of the Coccidia (Apicomplexa) of Carnivores of the World is to provide an up-to-date reference guide to the identification, taxonomy, and known biology of apicomplexan intestinal and tissue parasites of carnivores including, but not limited to, geographic distribution, prevalence, sporulation, prepatent and patent periods, site(s) of infection in the definitive and (if known) intermediate hosts, endogenous development, cross-transmission, pathology, phylogeny, and (if known) their treatments. These data will allow easy parasite recognition with a summation of virtually everything now known about the biology of each parasite species covered. The last (very modest) and only treatise published on this subject was in 1981 so this book fills a fundamental gap in our knowledge of what is now known, and what is not, about the coccidian parasites that infect and sometimes kill carnivores and/or their prey that can harbor intermediate stages, including many domestic and game animals.
1. Introduction2. Review Carnivore Evolution3. Eimeriidae in the Caniformia Family Ailuridae4. Eimeriidae in the Caniformia Family Canidae5. Eimeriidae in the Caniformia Family Mephitidae6. Eimeriidae in the Caniformia Family Mustelidae7. Eimeriidae in the Caniformia Family Phocidae8. Eimeriidae in the Caniformia Family Procyonidae9. Eimeriidae in the Caniformia Family Ursidae10. Eimeriidae in the Feliformia Family Felidae11. Eimeriidae in the Feliformia Family Herpestidae12. Eimeriidae in the Feliformia Family Hyaenidae13. Eimeriidae in the Feliformia Family Viverridae14. Adeleidae in the Carnivora15. Sarcocystidae: Sarcocystinae in the Carnivora16. Sarcocystidae: Toxoplasmatinae in the Carnivora17. Cryptosporidiidae in the Carnivora18. Treatment and Drug Therapies in Coccidiosis of Carnivora19. Carnivores without Coccidia and Species Inquirendae 20. Discussion, Summary, and Conclusions
