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.
- ISBN10 0080493742
- ISBN13 9780080493749
- Publish Date December 2003 (first published 9 December 2003)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Elsevier Science & Technology
- Imprint Academic Press Inc.(London) Ltd
- Edition New ed.
- Format eBook
- Pages 417
- Language English