The evolution and fossil record of parasitism : coevolution and paleoparasitological techniques / 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 : coevolution and paleoparasitological techniques / Kenneth De Baets, John Warren Huntley, editors.
ISBN 9783030522339 (electronic bk.)
3030522334 (electronic bk.)
9783030522322 (print)
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52233-9
Published Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2021.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (viii, 486 pages) : illustrations (some color).
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-030-52233-9 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 is in contrast to most contributions by parasitologists in the literature that focus on circular lines of evidence, such as extrapolating from current host associations or distributions, to estimate constraints on the timing of the origin and evolution of various parasite groups. This approach is narrow and fails to provide the wider evolutionary picture of parasitism on, and as part of, biodiversity. Volume two focuses on the importance of direct host associations and host responses such as pathologies in the geological record to constrain the role of antagonistic interactions in driving the diversification and extinction of parasite-host relationships and disease. To better understand the impact on host populations, emphasis is given to arthropods, colonial metazoans, echinoderms, mollusks and vertebrates as hosts. In addition, novel techniques used to constrain interactions in deep time are discussed ranging from chemical and microscopic investigations of host remains, such as blood and coprolites, to the statistical inference of lateral transfer of transposons and host-parasite coevolutionary dynamics using molecular divergence time estimation.
Note Includes index.
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Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed January 4, 2022).
Added Author Baets, Kenneth de, editor.
Huntley, John Warren, editor.
Series Topics in geobiology ; v. 50.
Available in Other Form Print version: 9783030522322
Print version: 9783030522346
Print version: 9783030522353
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Chapter 1. The fossil record of parasitism: Its extent and taphonomic constraints
Chapter 2. Importance of data on fossil symbioses for parasite-host evolution
Chapter 3. Biodiversity and host-parasite (co)extinction
Chapter 4. Evolutionary history of colonial organisms as hosts and parasites
Chapter 5. Crustaceans as hosts of parasites throughout the Phanerozoic
Chapter 6. Trilobites as hosts for parasites: From paleopathologies to ethiologies
Chapter 7. Evolutionary history of cephalopod pathologies linked with parasitism
Chapter 8. Bivalve Mollusks as Hosts in the Fossil Record
Chapter 9. Parasitism of Paleozoic Crinoids and Related Stalked Echinoderms: Paleopathology, Ichnology, Co-Evolution, and Evolutionary Paleoecology
Chapter 10. Deep origin of parasitic disease in vertebrates
Chapter 11. Gastrointestinal parasites of ancient non-human vertebrates: Evidence from coprolites and other materials
Chapter 12. Blood to Molecules: The Fossil Record of Blood and its Constituents
Chapter 13. The Molecular Clock as a Tool for Understanding Host-Parasite Evolution
Chapter 14. Horizontal Transfer of Transposons as Genomic Fossils of Host-Parasite Interactions.

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