Studies of local adaptation provide important insights into the power of natural selection
relative to gene flow and other evolutionary forces. They are a paradigm for testing …

Co-evolution between host and pathogen is, in principle, a powerful determinant of the
biology and genetics of infection and disease. Yet co-evolution has proven difficult to …

Parasites and infectious diseases are everywhere and represent some of the most potent
forces sha** the natural world. They affect almost every aspect imaginable in the life of …

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 …

From an analysis of the distributions of measures of transmission rates among hosts, we
identify an empirical relationship suggesting that, typically, 20% of the host population …

The majority of pathogens, including many of medical and veterinary importance, can infect
more than one species of host. Population biology has yet to explain why perceived …

Local adaptation of parasites to their sympatric hosts has been investigated on different
biological systems through reciprocal transplant experiments. Most of these studies revealed …

In host-parasite coevolutionary arms races, parasites probably have an evolutionary
advantage. Parasite populations should be locally adapted, having higher mean fitness on …

The ecological factors responsible for the evolution of individual differences in animal
personality (consistent individual differences in the same behaviour across time and …

In several reciprocal cross-infection experiments parasites were found to be significantly
more adapted to their local host populations than to hosts from distant populations. We …