| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 488 pages : illustrations, charts |
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text file PDF |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Quantifying parasite diversity / Robert Poulin -- Relationships between parasite diversity and host diversity / Boris Krasnov and Rober Poulin -- Patterns of diversity and distribution of aquatic invertebrates and their parasites / Tommy L.F. Leung, Camilo Mora and Klaus Rohde -- Under the changing climate : how shifting geographic distributions and sexual selection shape parasite diversification / Lajos Rózsa, Piotr Tryjanowski and Zoltán Vas -- Impacts of parasite diversity on wild vertebrates : limited knowledge but important perspectives / Frederic Bordes and Serge Morand -- Revealing parasite diversity using brute force molecular techniques and gently persuasive microscopy / Aurélie Chambouvet, S. Neuhauser, D. Bass and Tom Richards and David Bass -- Evolution of simian retroviruses / Ahidjo Ayouba and Martine Peeters -- The diversity and phylogeny of rickettsia / Lucy Weinert -- Advances in the classification of acanthocephalans : evolutionary history and evolution of the parasitism / Varela Martín García-Varela and Gerardo Pérez-Ponce de León -- The study of primate evolution from a lousy perspective / David L. Reed, Julie M. Allen, Melissa A. Toups, Bret Boyd and Marina Ascunce -- Host correlates of diversification in avian lice / Lajos Rózsa and Záltan Vas -- Evolutionary history of siphonaptera : fossils, origins, vectors / Katharina Dittmar, Qiyun Zhu, Michael W. Hastriter and Michael F. Whiting -- 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 -- The evolution of parasitism and host associations in mites / Ashley Dowling -- Nematode life-traits diversity in the light of their phylogenetic diversification / Serge Morand, Steve Nadler and Arne Skorping -- Phylogenetic patterns of diversity in the cestodes and trematodes / D. Timothy J. Littlewood, Rodney A. Bray and Andrea Waeschenbach -- Patterns of diversification in the parasites of caribbean anolis lizards / Bryan Falk and Suzan Perkins -- Comparative analysis -- recent developments and uses with parasites / Yves Desdevises, Serge Morand, Boris R. Krasnov and Julien Claude -- Phylogenetic signals in ecological properties of parasites / Boris Krasnov, Serge Morand and Robert Poulin -- Parasite species coexistence and the evolution of the parasite niche / Andrea Simková and Serge Morand -- A community perspective on the evolution of virulence / Hadas Hawlena and Frida Ben-Ami -- Host-specificity and species jumps in fish-parasite systems / Maarten P.M. Vanhove and Tine Huyse -- When is cophylogeny evidence of coevolution? / Timothée Poisot -- Bringing together phylogenies and behaviour in host-parasite interactions / Tania Jenkins and Philippe Christe -- The evolutionary epidemiology of the hepatitis c virus / Peter V. Markov, Rebecca Rose Gray, James Iles and Oliver G. Pybus. |
| Summary |
"This book 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."--Cover. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Pathogenic microorganisms.
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Pathogenic microorganisms. |
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Virulence (Microbiology)
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Virulence (Microbiology) |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Morand, S., editor.
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Krasnov, Boris R., 1950- editor.
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Littlewood, D. T. J. (D. Timothy J.), 1961- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Parasite diversity and diversification 9781107037656 (DLC) 2014024420 (OCoLC)884500263 |
| ISBN |
9781316247495 (electronic book) |
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131624749X (electronic book) |
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9781139794749 (electronic book) |
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1139794744 (electronic book) |
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9781316249390 |
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1316249395 |
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9781107037656 |
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1107037654 |
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