The Evolution and Fossil Record of Parasitism

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 supplements contributions by parasitologists that mostly focus on extrapolating from current host associations or distributions, to estimate constraints on the timing of the origin and evolution of various parasite groups. This approach allows a wider evolutionary picture of parasitism on, and as part of, biodiversity. Volume one focuses on identifying parasitism in the fossil record, and sheds light on the distribution and ecological importance of parasite-host interactions over time. In order to better understand the evolutionary history of parasites and their relationship with changes in the environment, emphasis is given to viruses, bacteria, protista and plants as parasites. Particular attention is given to metazoans such as molluscs, cnidarians, crustaceans and insects as parasites. Researchers, specifically parasitologists, interested in the evolutionary history of parasite-host interactions, as well as students studying parasitism will find this book appealing.

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Dr. Kenneth De Baets is a paleobiologist in the faculty of Natural Sciences at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nurnberg. He graduated from Ghent University with a Masters in Geology and earned his PhD in Evolutionary Biology at the University of Zürich. His main research focuses on documenting and interpreting the relative contributions of abiotic (e.g., climate) and biotic factors (e.g., parasitism) in driving large-scale patterns in the evolution of life and biomineralization.

Dr. John Huntley is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Missouri. He graduated from Appalachian State University with a Bachelors of Science in 2000, then earned his Masters in Geology at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington in 2003, and his PhD in Geosciences at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 2007. His main research interests include the fossil record of biotic interactions, stratigraphic and conservation paleobiology, and the evolution of morphological disparity.

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The Evolution and Fossil Record of Parasitism Identification and Macroevolution of Parasites1.Identifying parasitism in the fossil record => Kenneth De Baets and Timothy Littlewood
2.Parasitism through time => Kenneth De Baets, John Huntley
3.Evolutionary and ecological importance of parasitism => Tommy Leung, Kenneth De Baets,
4.Evolutionary history a.Viral fossils => Aris Katzourakisb.Bacteria as pathogens => George Poinarc.Protistan parasites => Ewan Wolff , Tommy Leungi.Foraminifers as parasites => Sally Walkerii.Apicomplexa as parasites => Ildemar Ferreiraiii.Euglenozoa as parasites => George Poinariv.Fungi (including microsporidians as parasites) => Nick Butterfieldd.Plants as parasites => Nate B. Hardy and Lyn G. Cooke.Metazoa as parasitesi.Cnidarians as parasites => Olev Vinn, Beth Okamura ii.Molluscs (Bivalves, Gastropods) as parasites => Christian Neumanniii.Nematoids as parasites => George Poinar 1.Nematodes as parasites2.Nematomorphs as parasitesiv.Annelids as parasites => Luke Parryv.Flatworms as parasites => Kenneth De Baetsvi.Rotifers as parasites (include Acan^ Thomas Nearvii.Chelicerates as parasites (include Acari) => Jason Dunlop, José de la Fuenteviii.Crustaceans as parasites => Christina Nagler, Joachim Haugix.Insects as parasitoids and parasites => Conrad Labandeira, Torsten Wapplerx.Vertebrates as parasites => Tommy Leungxi.Minor parasitic^ Greg Rousexii.Extinct lineages of parasites => Kenneth De Baets