Marine Parasitology, edited by Klaus Rohde, CSIRO Publishing, P.O. Box 113 (150 Oxford Street), Collingwood Victoria 3006, Australia, 592 p., A$135, ISBN 0-643-09025-8. CABI Publishing, Wallingford, Oxon OX10 8DE, U.K., ISBN 1-84593-053-3333.
One of the world's foremost experts on the ecology of host–parasite relationships in marine systems is Klaus Rohde. In 1993, the second edition of his Ecology of Marine Parasites was printed (CABI International). Twelve years later, he expanded the approach from the ecology of marine parasites to just about everything that has anything to do with marine parasitology. He was the sole author of Ecology of Marine Parasites. In the new book, he is the editor of an 11-chapter volume, collectively written by some 75 authors. Each of the chapters is divided into a various number of sections, with each section written by an authority. For example, the first chapter begins with a section that deals with...