Wild animals have parasites. This inconvenient truth has far‐reaching implications for
biologists measuring animal performance traits: infection with parasites can alter host …

Zoonotic disease outbreaks are an important threat to human health and numerous drivers
have been recognized as contributing to their increasing frequency. Identifying and …

Aim Environmental drivers and host richness play key roles in affecting herbivore diversity.
However, the relative effects of these factors and their effects on lineages characterized by …

Parasites are important components of biodiversity and contributors to ecosystem
functioning, but are often neglected in ecological studies. Most studies examine model …

Biodiversity varies worldwide and is influenced by multiple factors, such as environmental
stability and past historical events (eg Panama Isthmus). At the same time, organisms with …

A robust understanding of what drives parasite β-diversity is an essential step towards
explaining what limits pathogens' geographical spread. We used a novel global dataset …

Host–parasite systems, including social parasites that exploit resources of the host colonies,
are fascinating objects for evolutionary biologists mainly due to the dynamic and often rapid …

Parasite‐mediated selection is widely believed to play a crucial role in maintaining the
diversity of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) genes, which is thought to be …

Systematics is the intersection of phylogeny and taxonomy, where phylogeny refers to an
analysis of evolutionary or genealogical relationships, while taxonomy is the process of …

Aim Tree pests have major impacts in both natural and agricultural systems. Despite their
ecological and economic importance, it is likely that pests go unreported in many regions …