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“More Than Meets the Eye”: Cryptic diversity and contrasting patterns of host-specificity in feather mites inhabiting seabirds
Feather mites are useful models for studying speciation due to their high diversity and strong degree of host specialization. However, studies to date have focused on the evolution of higher-level...
Infrequent major host switches have strong macroevolutionary consequences for symbionts
Highly host-specific symbionts are very rarely found except with their typical host species. Although switches to new hosts are rare and difficult to detect, a switch to a host phylogenetically...
Opening the doors of parasitology journals to other symbionts
Intimate symbiotic relationships between species (e.g., between a larger ‘host’ and a smaller ‘symbiont’) span the range from mutualism to parasitism. The nature of a symbiotic relationship is not...
Vertical transmission in feather mites
The consequences of symbiont transmission strategies are better understood than their adaptive causes. Feather mites are permanent ectosymbionts of birds assumed to transmit mainly vertically and...
Infrapopulation size explains genetic diversity in a host-symbiont non-model system
Understanding what shapes variation in genetic diversity among species remains a major challenge in evolutionary ecology, and it has been seldom studied in parasites and other host-symbiont...
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