Parasite Diversity and Diversification (original) (raw)

The development of molecular tools has dramatically increased our knowledge of parasite diversity and the vectors that transmit them. From viruses and protists to arthropods and helminths, each branch of the Tree of Life offers an insight into significant, yet cryptic, biodiversity. Alongside this, the studies of host-parasite interactions and parasitism have influenced many scientific disciplines, such as biogeography and evolutionary ecology, by using comparative methods based on phylogenetic information to unravel shared evolutionary histories. Parasite Diversity and Diversification brings together two active fields of research, phylogenetics and evolutionary ecology, to reveal and explain the patterns of parasite diversity and the diversification of their hosts. This book will encourage students and researchers in the fields of ecology and evolution of parasitism, as well as animal and human health, to integrate phylogenetics into the investigation of parasitism in evolutionary ecology, health ecology, medicine and conservation.

'The volume is more than a set of papers on parasites: it will interest a wide range of researchers other than parasitologists, as its focus is the evolutionary and phylogenetic relationships between parasites and hosts and their diversification.'

Alan PikeSource: The Biologist

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Select Parasite Diversity and Diversification - Title page

Select Copyright page

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Select Contributors

Select Foreword

Select Introduction

Select 1 - Quantifying parasite diversity

Select 2 - Relationships between parasite diversity and host diversity

Select 3 - Patterns of diversity and distribution of aquatic invertebrates and their parasites

Select 6 - Revealing microparasite diversity in aquatic environments using brute force molecular techniques and subtle microscopy

Select 7 - Evolution of simianretroviruses

Select 8 - The diversity and phylogeny ofRickettsia

Select 9 - Advances in the classification ofacanthocephalans: evolutionary history and evolution of the parasitism

Select 10 - The study of primate evolution from a lousy perspective

Select 11 - Host correlates of diversification in avian lice

Select 12 - Evolutionary history of Siphonaptera:fossils, origins, vectors

Select 13 - Bat fly evolution from the Eocene to the Present (Hippoboscoidea,Streblidae andNycteribiidae)

Select 14 - The evolution of parasitism and host associations in mites

Select 15 - Nematode life-traits diversity in the light of their phylogenetic diversification

Select 16 - Phylogenetic patterns of diversity in cestodes andtrematodes

Select 17 - Parasite diversification in CaribbeanAnolislizards

Select 18 - Comparative analysis: recent developments and uses with parasites

Select 19 - Phylogenetic signals in ecological properties of parasites

Select 20 - Parasite species coexistence and the evolution of the parasite niche

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