PARASITES AS TO HOST EVOLUTIONARY PRINTS - INSIGHTS INTO HOST EVOLUTION FROM PARASITOLOGICAL DATA

Thomas F., Verneau O., De Meeus T. & Renaud F. 1996. Parasites as to h ost evolutionary prints: insights into host evolution from parasitolog ical data. International Journal for Parasitology 26: 677-686. The clo se relationships which link parasitic organisms to their hosts have le d to the use of parasites as biological tags. Most studies on this top ic refer to parasites as host ecological tags, Recent development of m olecular methods which give access to the genomic structures of popula tions have provided new information on the evolutionary biology of par asites, In this paper, we have attempted to review,whether parasites c an be considered as ''host evolutionary prints'', and focus our discus sion on host biodiversity and biogeography. Copyright (C) 1996 Austral ian Society for Parasitology.