Does coevolution promote species richness in parasitic cuckoos?

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1674, 2009, Pages 3871-3879

  Krüger, Oliver ^a   Sorenson, Michael D ^b   Davies, Nicholas B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

Comparative analysis; Parasite host coevolution; Speciation; Subspecies; Virulence

Indexed keywords

ARCHIPELAGO; BROOD PARASITISM; COEVOLUTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EXTINCTION; PASSERINE; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); SPECIES RICHNESS; VIRULENCE;

ARTICLE; BIRD; BROOD PARASITISM; CLADOGENESIS; COEVOLUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUCKOO; GENUS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES EXTINCTION; SUBSPECIES; ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

CUCULIDAE;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIRDS; EVOLUTION; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 70449704648     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.1142     Document Type: Article

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