Evolution of host specificity in fleas: Is it directional and irreversible?

International Journal for Parasitology

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 185-191

  Poulin, Robert ^a   Krasnov, Boris R ^b   Shenbrot, Georgy I ^b   Mouillot, David ^c   Khokhlova, Irina S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Clade rank; Likelihood ratio test; Phylogeny; Random walk; Siphonaptera

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; FLEA; HOST SPECIFICITY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION;

ARTICLE; CLADISTICS; DIRECTED MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; FLEA; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HOST RANGE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; TAXONOMIC RANK;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; FLEAS; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MAMMALS; PARASITIC DISEASES, ANIMAL; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

HYSTRICHOPSYLLIDAE; MAMMALIA; SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS);

EID: 32144456024     PISSN: 00207519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2005.09.017     Document Type: Article

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