The evolution and fossil record of parasitism : identification and macroevolution of parasites / Kenneth De Baets, John Warren Huntley, editors.
Baets, Kenneth de, editor.; Huntley, John Warren, editor.
2021
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Title The evolution and fossil record of parasitism : identification and macroevolution of parasites / Kenneth De Baets, John Warren Huntley, editors.
ISBN 9783030424848 (electronic bk.)
3030424847 (electronic bk.)
9783030424831 (print)
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42484-8
Published Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2021]
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xii, 565 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-030-42484-8 doi
Call Number QL757
Dewey Decimal Classification 571.9/99
Summary This two-volume edited book highlights and reviews the potential of the fossil record to calibrate the origin and evolution of parasitism, and the techniques to understand the development of parasite-host associations and their relationships with environmental and ecological changes. The book deploys a broad and comprehensive approach, aimed at understanding the origins and developments of various parasite groups, in order to provide a wider evolutionary picture of parasitism as part of biodiversity. This supplements contributions by parasitologists that mostly focus on extrapolating from current host associations or distributions, to estimate constraints on the timing of the origin and evolution of various parasite groups. This approach allows a wider evolutionary picture of parasitism on, and as part of, biodiversity. Volume one focuses on identifying parasitism in the fossil record, and sheds light on the distribution and ecological importance of parasite-host interactions over time. In order to better understand the evolutionary history of parasites and their relationship with changes in the environment, emphasis is given to viruses, bacteria, protista and plants as parasites. Particular attention is given to metazoans such as molluscs, cnidarians, crustaceans and insects as parasites. Researchers, specifically parasitologists, interested in the evolutionary history of parasite-host interactions, as well as students studying parasitism will find this book appealing.
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Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed May 10, 2021).
Added Author Baets, Kenneth de, editor.
Huntley, John Warren, editor.
Series Topics in geobiology ; v. 49. 0275-0120
Available in Other Form Evolution and fossil record of parasitism.
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Chapter 1. Parasites of Fossil Vertebrates: What We Know and What can We Expect from the Fossil Record?
Chapter 2. Fossil Record of Viruses, Parasitic Bacteria and Parasitic Protozoa
Chapter 3. Fungi as Parasites: A Conspectus of the Fossil Record
Chapter 4: Evolution, Origins and Diversification of Parasitic Cnidarians
Chapter 5. Evolutionary History of Bivalves as Parasites
Chapter 6. Gastropods as Parasites and Carnivorous Grazers
A Major Guild in Marine Ecosystems
Chapter 7: Fossil Constraints on the Timescale of Parasitic Helminth Evolution
Chapter8. Thorny-headed Worms (Acanthocephala): Jaw-less Members of Jaw-bearing Worms that Parasitize Jawed Arthropods and Jaw-bearing Vertebrates
Chapter 9. Chelicerates as Parasites
Chapter 10. Evolutionary History of Crustaceans as Parasites
Chapter 11. The History of Insect Parasitism and the Mid-Mesozoic Parasitoid Revolution.

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