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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:
    9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 0 3 1 7 5 4 - 7
  • eBook ISBN:
    9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 0 4 9 3 7 4 - 9

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.