The evolution of parasitism : a phylogenetic perspective / guest editor, D.T.J. Littlewood.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cryptic Organelles in Parasitic Protists and Fungi -- Phylogenetic Insights into the Evolution of Parasitism in Hymenoptera -- Nematoda: Genes, Genomes and the Evolution of Parasitism -- Life Cycle Evolution in the Digenea: a New Perspective from Phylogeny -- Progress in Malaria Research: the Case for Phylogenetics --Phylogenies, the Comparative Method and Parasite Evolutionary Ecology -- Recent Results in Cophylogeny Mapping -- Inference of Viral Evolutionary Rates from Molecular Sequences -- Detecting Adaptive Molecular Evolution: Additional Tools for the Parasitologist.

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.

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