Biodiversity and Evolution of Parasitic Life in the Southern Ocean
The Southern Oceans including Antarctic regions are peculiar and very sensitive water biotopes, where animal life and species interrelations are only poorly investigated. Especially the influence of parasites on their host species needs intensive consider
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Sven Klimpel Thomas Kuhn Heinz Mehlhorn Editors
Biodiversity and Evolution of Parasitic Life in the Southern Ocean
Parasitology Research Monographs Series editor Heinz Mehlhorn Department of Parasitology Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf Germany
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Sven Klimpel • Thomas Kuhn • Heinz Mehlhorn Editors
Biodiversity and Evolution of Parasitic Life in the Southern Ocean
Editors Sven Klimpel
Goethe University Institute for Ecology, Evolution, and Diversity Senckenberg Biodversity and Climate Research Centre Frankfurt/Main Germany
Heinz Mehlhorn Heinrich Heine University Department of Zoomorphology Düsseldorf Germany
Thomas Kuhn Goethe University Institute for Ecology, Evolution, and Diversity Senckenberg Biodversity and Climate Research Centre Frankfurt/Main Germany
ISSN 2192-3671 ISSN 2192-368X (electronic) Parasitology Research Monographs ISBN 978-3-319-46342-1 ISBN 978-3-319-46343-8 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-46343-8 Library of Congress Control Number: 2017931024 © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Printed on acid-free paper This Springer imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Springer International Publishing AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
Preface
Antarctica is the most Southern continent on earth and had millions of years time to adapt its environments from tropical ones of the giant continent Gondwana to most cold ones in our times. This led to an enormous reduction of species and for the survivors strict specialization and adaption to the new environment was needed. Parasites, which lived in or on these animals (migrating with their continents), had the same problems like their hosts. They had to adapt their life cycles and their body properties to the new conditions. This book reports from the sometimes sophisticated adaptions of some
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