Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- Access to Colour Illustrations -- 1 Molecular Analysis of Nematode Evolution -- 2 The Wolbachia Endosymbionts of Filarial Nematodes -- 3 Forward Genetic Analysis of Plant-parasitic Nematode-Host Interactions -- 4 Identification of Parasitic Nematodes and Study of Genetic Variability Using PCR Approaches -- 5 Diversity in Populations of Parasitic Nematodes and its Significance -- 6 New Insights into the Intestinal Niche of Trichinella spiralis -- 7 Genetic Reprogramming of Mammalian Skeletal Muscle Cells by Trichinella spiralis -- 8 Plant-parasitic Nematodes -- 9 The Nematode Cuticle: Synthesis, Modification and Mutants -- 10 Chitinases of Filarial Nematodes -- 11 Acetylcholinesterase Secretion by Nematodes -- 12 The Surface and Secreted Antigens of Toxocara canis: Genes, Protein Structure and Function -- 13 Nematode Gut Peptidases, Proteins and Vaccination -- 14 Metabolic Transitions and the Role of the Pyruvate Dehydrogenase Complex During Development of Ascaris suum -- 15 Novel Carbohydrate Structures -- 16 Structurally Novel Lipid-binding Proteins -- 17 T Helper Cell Cytokine Responses During Intestinal Nematode Infection: Induction, Regulation and Effector Function -- 18 Gut Immunopathology in Helminth Infections - Paradigm Lost? -- 19 Immunomodulation by Filarial Nematode Phosphorylcholinecontaining Glycoproteins -- 20 Nematode Neuropeptides -- 21 Neurobiology of Nematode Muscle: Ligand-gated Ion-channels and Anti-parasitic Drugs -- Index.