The Evolution of Parasitism - A Phylogenetic Perspective: Volume 54

By Tim Littlewood

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0120317540
• ISBN13: 9780120317547
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Academic Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.2"