An Anecdotal History of Nematology

Nematology is not only about those lovely Nobel prize winning creatures, nematodes, but also about the people who work with them, the nematologists. Your good friends Bengt Eriksson, David McNamara and John Webster have cajoled a whole galaxy of story-telling nematologists to reminisce about their loved ones, their nematodes, and to tell us how they got to know them so well. It is all disclosed in "An Anecdotal History of Nematology". It is good nematology, but it's different, and you will be able to read the other side of some of our nematological world's most fascinating discoveries and about their discoverers.The book is addressed to all who love to work on nematodes. It will be of interest also to historians of science and to any zoological library. Our early stars / Bengt Eriksson Nematological nebulae in Europe and the USA / John M. Webster and Seymour D. Van Gundy First catch your nematode! the development of methods for recovering nematodes from soil / David McNamara Through nematode diversity to living soil processes holistic studies aid progress / Gregor Yeates Nematode physiology : significant developments in the understanding of the biology of simple eukaryotic animals / Howard Ferris and Haddish Melakeberhan Molecular taxonomy of nematodes / Pierre Abad and Philippe Castagnone-Sereno A history of potato cyst nematode research / Ken Evans and David L. Trudgill Cereal cyst nematode complex / Roger Rivoal The science and art of soybean cyst nematode research / Terry L. Niblack and Don P. Schmitt Nematodes/viruses/plants : "a 32 year love affair" / Derek J.F. Brown Horticultural hazards : in and out of hot-water baths and other transient technologies / Simon R. Gowen and Philip A. Roberts The spread of nematology to developing countries : a case study / Michel Luc Contributions by Latin American nematologists to the study of nematode plant disorders and related impact on crop production / Rosa H. Manzanilla-López [and others] Quarantine nematodes / David McNamara The pinewood nematode : a personal view / Helen Braasch and Manuel M. Mota History of the development of nematodes as biocontrol agents / Parwinder S. Grewal and Harry K. Kaya Dynamics of nematological infrastructure / Roland N. Perry and James L. Starr Nematology : dreams and visions of the future. A nematology dream : miscalculations, and false prophecies? / Ernest C. Bernard. Vision of nematology in Canada in the next 50 years / Guy Bélair. The future of nematode systematics and phylogeny over the next 50 years / Virginia R. Ferris. A nematologist's dream / Florian Grundler. My nematology dream / Paulo Vieira. The devil's advocate / Derek J.F. Brown. My dream, not a nightmare / Forest Robinson My dream of the future of nematology and chemical communication research 50 years from now / Ekaterina Riga. C. elegans as a model system for space travel / Robert Johnsen and David Baillie. "Nematology is not only about those lovely Nobel prize winning creatures, nematodes, but also about the people who work with them, the nematologists. Bengt Eriksson, David McNamara and John Webster have cajoled a whole galaxy of story-telling nematologists to reminisce about their loved ones, their nematodes, and to tell us how they got to know them so well. It is all disclosed in "An Anecdotal History of Nematology". It is good nematology, but it's different, and you will be able to read the other side of some of our nematological world's most fascinating discoveries and about their discoverers." "The book is addressed to all who love to work on nematodes. It will be of interest also to historians of science and to any zoological library."--Jacket