01067nam a2200181 a 450000100080000000500110000800800410001910000170006024500300007726000400010730000160014749000090016352006450017265000170081765000180083470000150085270000180086714205942008-07-31       1996    bl uuuu      00u1 u    #d1 aBAKER, J. R.  aAdvances in parasitology.  aLondon: Academic Press, 1996,c1996  a342 p. v.37  vv.37  aRobert Poulin, at the University of Otago, has tackled the important question of the evolution of life history strategies. Parasites present a fascinating array of simple and complex life histories which should provide excellent examples for testing life history theories. However, while this is an active field of evolutionary ecology for free - living organisms, much recent research has not so far been repeated for parasitic organisms, which can have very different strategies (e.g. short or long prepatency and patency periods, low or high fecundity and growth rates etc.). Another important factor is the pressure exerted by the host.  aparasitology  aParasitologia1 aMULLER, R.1 aROLLINSON, D.