Of Lice and Birds

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

Monday, April 30, 2007

Pectinopygus and Pelecaniforme cospeciation

We have recently published "Multiple Cophylogenetic Analyses Reveal Frequent Cospeciation between Pelecaniform Birds and Pectinopygus Lice." All the additional data for this paper can be obtained from my website, Treebase and GenBank.
Hopefully, this will provide a dataset for future tests of cospeciation methodologies.