Parasite Diversity and Diversification

List of contributors; Foreword; Introduction Serge Morand, Boris Krasnov and Tim Littlewood; Part I. Evolutionary Ecology of Parasite Diversity: 1. Quantifying parasite diversity Robert Poulin; 2. Relationships between parasite diversity and host diversity Boris Krasnov and Robert Poulin; 3. Patterns of diversity and distribution of aquatic invertebrates and their parasites Tommy L. F. Leung, Camilo Mora and Klaus Rohde; 4. Under the changing climate: how shifting geographic distributions and sexual selection shape parasite diversification Lajos Rózsa, Piotr Tryjanowski and Zoltán Vas; 5. Impacts of parasite diversity on wild vertebrates: limited knowledge but important perspectives Frederic Bordes and Serge Morand; Part II. The Evolutionary History of Parasite Diversity: 6. Revealing parasite diversity using brute force molecular techniques and gently persuasive microscopy Aurélie Chambouvet, Thomas A. Richards, David Bass and Sigrid Neuhauser; 7. Evolution of simian retroviruses Ahidjo Ayouba and Martine Peeters; 8. The diversity and phylogeny of Rickettsia Lucy A. Weinert; 9. Advances in the classification of Acanthocephalans: evolutionary history and evolution of the parasitism Martín García-Varela and Gerardo Pérez-Ponce de León; 10. The study of primate evolution from a lousy perspective David L. Reed, Julie M. Allen, Melissa A. Toups, Bret Boyd and Marina Ascunce; 11. Host correlates of diversification in avian lice Lajos Rózsa and Zoltán Vas; 12. Evolutionary history of Siphonaptera: fossils, origins, vectors Katharina Dittmar, Qiyun Zhu, Michael W. Hastriter and Michael F. Whiting; 13. 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; 14. The evolution of parasitism and host associations in mites Ashley Dowling; 15. Nematode life-traits diversity in the light of their phylogenetic diversification Serge Morand, Steve Nadler and Arne Skorping; 16. Phylogenetic patterns of diversity in the cestodes and trematodes Timothy J. Littlewood, Rodney A. Bray and Andrea Waeschenbach; 17. Patterns of diversification in the parasites of Caribbean Anolis lizards Bryan G. Falk and Susan L. Perkins; Part III. Combining Ecology and Phylogenetics: 18. Comparative analysis – recent developments and uses with parasites Yves Desdevises, Serge Morand, Boris R. Krasnov and Julien Claude; 19. Phylogenetic signals in ecological properties of parasites Boris R. Krasnov, Serge Morand and Robert Poulin; 20. Parasite species coexistence and the evolution of the parasite niche Andrea Šimková and Serge Morand; 21. A community perspective on the evolution of virulence Hadas Hawlena and Frida Ben-Ami; 22. Host-specificity and species jumps in fish-parasite systems Maarten P. M. Vanhove and Tine Huyse; 23. When is cophylogeny evidence of coevolution? Timothée Poisot; 24. Bringing together phylogenies and behaviour in host-parasite interactions Tania Jenkins and Philippe Christe; 25. The evolutionary epidemiology of the Hepatitis C virus Peter V. Markov, Rebecca R. Gray, James Iles and Oliver G. Pybus; Conclusion and perspectives Armand Kuris; Index.