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The Evolution of Parasitism - A Phylogenetic Perspective
1st Edition, Volume 54 - December 9, 2003
Editor: Tim Littlewood
Language: English
Hardback ISBN:9780120317547
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eBook ISBN:9780080493749
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Parasitology continues to benefit from taking an evolutionary approach to its study. Tree construction, character-mapping, tree-based evolutionary interpretation, and other de…Read more
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Parasitology continues to benefit from taking an evolutionary approach to its study. Tree construction, character-mapping, tree-based evolutionary interpretation, and other developments in molecular and morphological phylogenetics have had a profound influence and have shed new light on the very nature of host-parasite relations and their coevolution. Life cycle complexity, parasite ecology and the origins and evolution of parasitism itself are all underpinned by an understanding of phylogeny.
The Evolution of Parasitism - A Phylogenetic Perspective aims to bring together a range of articles that exemplifies the phylogenetic approach as applied to various disciplines within parasitology and as applied by parasitologists. Unified by the use of phylogenies, this book tackles a wide variety of parasite-specific biological problems across a diverse range of taxa.
Includes important contributions from leading minds in the field such as Serge Morand, Francisco Ayala and Mark Blaxter, among others
Second in the ISI Parasitology List in 2002 with an Impact Factor of 4.818
Series encompasses over 35 years of parasitology coverage
Researchers in parasitology, tropical medicine, evolutionary biology, entomology, zoology, and veterinary science
Introduction - phylogenies, phylogenetics, parasites and the evolution of parasitism - D.T.J. Littlewood
Cryptic Organelles in Parasitic Protists and Fungi - Bryony A. P. Williams & Patrick J. Keeling
Phylogenetic Insights into the Evolution of Parasitism in Hymenoptera - James B. Whitfield
Nematoda: Genes, Genomes and the Evolution of Parasitism - Mark L. Blaxter
Life Cycle Evolution in the Digenea: a New Perspective from Phylogeny - Thomas H. Cribb , Rodney A. Bray , Peter D. Olson & D. Timothy J. Littlewood
Progress in Malaria Research: the Case for Phylogenetics - Stephen M. Rich & Francisco J. Ayala
Phylogenies, the Comparative Method and Parasite Evolutionary Ecology - Serge Morand & Robert Poulin
Recent Results in Cophylogeny Mapping - Michael A. Charleston
Inference of Viral Evolutionary Rates from Molecular Sequences - Alexei Drummond, Oliver G. Pybus & Andrew Rambaut
Detecting Adaptive Molecular Evolution: Additional Tools for the Parasitologist - James O. McInerney, D. Timothy J. Littlewood & Christopher J. Creevey
No. of pages: 416
Language: English
Edition: 1
Volume: 54
Published: December 9, 2003
Imprint: Academic Press
Hardback ISBN: 9780120317547
eBook ISBN: 9780080493749
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Tim Littlewood
D. Timothy J. Littlewood is a Merit Researcher and currently Head of Life Sciences Department at the Natural History Museum, London. His main research interests include the systematics of platyhelminths (flatworms), and other phyla, particularly with a view to revealing patterns of diversity and diversification associated with parasitism.
Affiliations and expertise
Natural History Museum, London, U.K.
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