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Coevolution of life on hosts : integrating ecology and history /

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Clayton, Dale H. (Author), Bush, Sarah Elizabeth (Author), Johnson, Kevin P. (Author)
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2015.
Series:Interspecific interactions.
Subjects:
Coevolution.
Lice.
Parasites.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Background
  • Introduction to coevolution
  • Biology of lice: overview
  • Effects of lice on hosts
  • Coadaptation
  • Adaptations for resisting lice
  • Counter-adaptations of lice
  • Competition and coadaptation
  • Hosts as islands
  • Dispersal
  • Population structure
  • Codiversification
  • Cophylogenetic dynamics
  • Comparative cophylogenetics of lice
  • Coadaptive diversification of lice
  • Synthesis
  • Coevolution of life on hosts.