Evolutionary Biology of Parasites (eBook)

Peter W. Price (Autor)

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2020
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-20942-5 (ISBN)

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In spite of the fact that parasites represent more than half of all living species of plants and animals, their role in the evolution of life on earth has been substantially underestimated. Here, for the first time within an evolutionary and ecological framework, Peter Price integrates the biological attributes that characterize parasites ranging from such diverse groups as viruses, bacteria, protozoa, and fungi, to helminths, mites, insects, and parasitic flowering plants.Synthesizing systematics, ecology, behavioral biology, genetics, and biogeography, the author outlines the success of parasitism as a mode of life, the common features of the wide range of organisms that adopt such a way of life, the reasons for parasites' extraordinary potential for continued adaptive radiation, and their role in molding community structure by means of their impact on the evolution of host species. In demonstrating the importance of parasitic interactions for determining population patterns and geographical distributions, Dr. Price generates further discussion and suggests new areas for research.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 31.3.2020
• Reihe/Serie: Monographs in Population Biology
• Reihe/Serie: Monographs in Population Biology
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Evolution
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Schlagworte: adaptive Radiation • Adelina tribolii • Agromyzidae • allopatric speciation • ambrosia beetle • aphid • asexual reproduction • Bacteria • biogeography • Biological interaction • biological pest control • Biological Warfare • Biology • Botfly • carnivore • Charles Darwin • Chromosomal rearrangement • chromosomal rearrangements • Coevolution • Coexistence • crustacean • Cynipoidea • cytogenetics • Dactylogyrus • Dicrocheles phalaenodectes • disease ecology • diversity of parasites • Drosophila melanogaster • ecological niche • Ecological Succession • Ecology • Encyrtidae • Equilibrium • Evolution • evolutionary biology • Evolutionary pressure • Evolutionary Rate • extinction probability • Fish diseases and parasites • founder effect • fungus • Gall wasp • Gene Flow • gene-for-gene concept • genetic drift • Genetic heterogeneity • genetic systems • genetic variability • Genotype • Heliconius • helminths • Herbivore • Heterodera • Hippoboscidae • Host (biology) • Hymenolepis • Hymenolepis (tapeworm) • Hymenoptera • Hyperparasite • Ichneumonidae • immune response • Inbreeding • infestation • insect • larva • Leptotrombidium • louse • Mallophaga • mating • Meiosis • Mite • mitosis • mobility of parasites • mutation rate • mutualism • Mutualism (biology) • Myxoma virus • Nematode • obligate parasite • organism • outbreeding • Parapatric speciation • parasite load • Parasitic disease • parasitism • Parasitoid • Parasitoid wasp • Parasitology • Parthenogenesis • patchy resources • pathogen • Pathogenic Fungus • phenology • Phylogenetics • phytoalexin • Plasmodium • Polymorphism • population dynamics • Population Genetics • Population Size • predation • predators • Protozoa • Pteromalidae • Rare Events • Rate of evolution • resources, ephemeral • rickettsiosis • Root-knot nematode • Rust (fungus) • Schistosoma • Schistosoma mansoni • Schistosomiasis • scrub typhus • sexual reproduction • Speciation • Species, packing • survivorship curves • Sympatric speciation • Taxon • Taxonomy (biology) • Trematoda • Trombiculidae • Trypanosomiasis
• ISBN-10: 0-691-20942-1 / 0691209421
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-20942-5 / 9780691209425