The evolution of parasitism :  a phylogenetic perspective / 
guest editor, D.T.J. Littlewood. 
 - 1st ed. 
 - Amsterdam ;  Boston :  Elsevier Academic,  2003. 
 - 1 online resource (xii, 404 pages) :  illustrations. 
 - Advances in parasitology ;  v. 54 .
 - Advances in parasitology ;  v. 54. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780080493749 0080493742 0120317540 9780120317547 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Parasitology.<br/>SCIENCE--Life Sciences--Zoology--General.<br/>Parasitology.<br/>Parasitologie.<br/>Parasieten.<br/>Evolutie.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>QL757  / .E96 2003eb QH 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>591.7/857