Of Lice and Birds

About host-parasite coevolution in general with an emphasis on host-parasite cospeciation in lice and birds.

Thursday, November 30, 2006

Pelecaniform birds and lice

Our article on cospeciation Pectinopygus lice and Pelecaniform birds has been recently accepted for publication in Systematic Biology. It unambiguously support cospeciation between the birds and the lice by using multiple cophylogenetic methods (TreeMap, TreeFitter, ParaFit, Coalescence, ILD) including the calibration of host and parasite phylogenies to provide support for similar timing of speciation in both hosts and parasites.

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