Parasitic infections are ubiquitous in wildlife, livestock and human populations, and healthy
ecosystems are often parasite rich. Yet, their negative impacts can be extreme …

Parasitism can be a driver of species divergence and thereby significantly alter species
formation processes. While we still need to better understand how parasite-mediated …

The range of hosts a pathogen infects (host specificity) is a key element of disease risk that
may be influenced by both shared phylogenetic history and shared ecological attributes of …

Heterogeneous exposure to parasites may contribute to host species differentiation. Hosts
often harbour multiple parasite species which may interact and thus modify each other's …

The stunning diversity of cichlid fishes has greatly enhanced our understanding of
speciation and radiation. Little is known about the evolution of cichlid parasites. Parasites …

Thanks to high species diversity and a broad range of speciation mechanisms, cichlid fishes
represent a textbook model in evolutionary biology. They are also of substantial economic …

Lake Tanganyika is well-known for its high species-richness and rapid radiation processes.
Its assemblage of cichlid fishes recently gained momentum as a framework to study parasite …

The digenetic trematode family Gorgocephalidae comprises just a few species, and the
literature devoted to the lineage consists of only a handful of reports. With one exception, all …

The unparalleled biodiversity of Lake Tanganyika (Africa) has fascinated biologists for over
a century; its unique cichlid communities are a preferred model for evolutionary research …

Schistosomatidae Stiles and Hassall 1898 is a medically significant family of digenetic
trematodes (Trematoda: Digenea), members of which infect mammals or birds as definitive …