Parasite Diversity and Diversification
Parasite Diversity and Diversification
Boris R. Krasnov, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
D. Timothy J. Littlewood, Natural History Museum, London
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USDThe 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.
- Highlights the recent advances in the quantification of parasite diversity – offers plenty of tools and examples from both terrestrial and marine environments
- Presents the state-of-the-art research in the phylogenetic diversification of several important groups of parasites – new methods are examined in relation to examples of parasite diversification in an ecological and evolutionary context
- Summarises statistical comparative methods using freeware – suggests sources, references and ideas for new research projects
Reviews & endorsements
"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 Pike, The Biologist
Product details
April 2015Hardback
9781107037656
488 pages
253 × 181 × 26 mm
1.13kg
65 b/w illus. 15 tables
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Table of Contents
- List of contributors
- Foreword
- Introduction Serge Morand, Boris Krasnov and Tim Littlewood
- Part I. Evolutionary Ecology of Parasite Diversity:
- 1. Quantifying parasite diversity Robert Poulin
- 2. Relationships between parasite diversity and host diversity Boris Krasnov and Robert Poulin
- 3. Patterns of diversity and distribution of aquatic invertebrates and their parasites Tommy L. F. Leung, Camilo Mora and Klaus Rohde
- 4. Under the changing climate: how shifting geographic distributions and sexual selection shape parasite diversification Lajos Rózsa, Piotr Tryjanowski and Zoltán Vas
- 5. Impacts of parasite diversity on wild vertebrates: limited knowledge but important perspectives Frederic Bordes and Serge Morand
- Part II. The Evolutionary History of Parasite Diversity:
- 6. Revealing parasite diversity using brute force molecular techniques and gently persuasive microscopy Aurélie Chambouvet, Thomas A. Richards, David Bass and Sigrid Neuhauser
- 7. Evolution of simian retroviruses Ahidjo Ayouba and Martine Peeters
- 8. The diversity and phylogeny of Rickettsia Lucy A. Weinert
- 9. Advances in the classification of Acanthocephalans: evolutionary history and evolution of the parasitism MartÃn GarcÃa-Varela and Gerardo Pérez-Ponce de León
- 10. The study of primate evolution from a lousy perspective David L. Reed, Julie M. Allen, Melissa A. Toups, Bret Boyd and Marina Ascunce
- 11. Host correlates of diversification in avian lice Lajos Rózsa and Zoltán Vas
- 12. Evolutionary history of Siphonaptera: fossils, origins, vectors Katharina Dittmar, Qiyun Zhu, Michael W. Hastriter and Michael F. Whiting
- 13. Bat fly evolution from the Eocene to the present (Hippoboscoidea, Streblidae and Nycteribiidae) Katharina Dittmar, Solon F. Morse, Carl W. Dick and Bruce D. Patterson
- 14. The evolution of parasitism and host associations in mites Ashley Dowling
- 15. Nematode life-traits diversity in the light of their phylogenetic diversification Serge Morand, Steve Nadler and Arne Skorping
- 16. Phylogenetic patterns of diversity in the cestodes and trematodes Timothy J. Littlewood, Rodney A. Bray and Andrea Waeschenbach
- 17. Patterns of diversification in the parasites of Caribbean Anolis lizards Bryan G. Falk and Susan L. Perkins
- Part III. Combining Ecology and Phylogenetics:
- 18. Comparative analysis – recent developments and uses with parasites Yves Desdevises, Serge Morand, Boris R. Krasnov and Julien Claude
- 19. Phylogenetic signals in ecological properties of parasites Boris R. Krasnov, Serge Morand and Robert Poulin
- 20. Parasite species coexistence and the evolution of the parasite niche Andrea Šimková and Serge Morand
- 21. A community perspective on the evolution of virulence Hadas Hawlena and Frida Ben-Ami
- 22. Host-specificity and species jumps in fish-parasite systems Maarten P. M. Vanhove and Tine Huyse
- 23. When is cophylogeny evidence of coevolution? Timothée Poisot
- 24. Bringing together phylogenies and behaviour in host-parasite interactions Tania Jenkins and Philippe Christe
- 25. The evolutionary epidemiology of the Hepatitis C virus Peter V. Markov, Rebecca R. Gray, James Iles and Oliver G. Pybus
- Conclusion and perspectives Armand Kuris
- Index.
