Recent advances in our knowledge of parasitic and mutualistic associations have confirmed
the central role of coevolutionary interactions in population and community ecology. Here …

The study of parasite local adaptation, whereby parasites perform better on sympatric hosts
than on allopatric hosts and/or better on their own host population than do other parasites, is …

Parasites have evolved independently in numerous animal lineages, and they now make up
a considerable proportion of the biodiversity of life. Not only do they impact humans and …

Concerns about the genetic erosion of crop genetic resources (CGR) were first articulated by
scientists in the mid‐20th century and have since become an important part of national …

Why do parasites harm their hosts? Conventional wisdom holds that because parasites
depend on their hosts for survival and transmission, they should evolve to become benign …

Parasites can dramatically reduce the fitness of their hosts, and natural selection should
favor defense mechanisms that can protect hosts against disease. Much work has focused …

We propose a computational and theoretical framework for analyzing rapid coevolutionary
dynamics of bacteriophage and bacteria in their ecological context. Bacteriophage enter …

Many agricultural landscapes are characterized by a high degree of heterogeneity and
fragmentation. Landscape ecology focuses on the influence of habitat heterogeneity in …

Multihost parasites can infect different types of hosts or even different host species.
Epidemiological models have shown the importance of the diversity of potential hosts for …

Adaptive divergence among populations can result in local adaptation, whereby genotypes
in native environments exhibit greater fitness than genotypes in novel environments. A body …