Hosts and their symbionts are involved in intimate physiological and ecological interactions.
The impact of these interactions on the evolution of each partner depends on the time‐scale …

Leishmaniases remain a major public health problem today despite the vast amount of
research conducted on Leishmania pathogens. The biological model is genetically and …

Measures of population genetic structure and diversity of disease-causing organisms are
commonly used to draw inferences regarding their evolutionary history and potential to …

Aim To integrate ecological fitting, the oscillation hypothesis and the taxon pulse hypothesis
into a coherent null model for the evolution of complex host–parasite associations. Location …

The global malaria burden sometimes obscures that the genus Plasmodium comprises
diverse clades with lineages that independently gave origin to the extant human parasites …

In this review on fungal speciation, we first contrast the issues of species definition and
species criteria and show that by distinguishing the two concepts the approaches to studying …

Genetic information is used extensively to reconstruct the evolutionary and demographic
history of organisms. Recently, it has been suggested that genetic information from some …

Background Ticks can transmit a number of pathogens to humans and domestic animals.
Tick borne diseases (TBDs), which may lead to organ failure and death have been recently …

(Adaptive) radiations have attracted evolutionary biologists for a long time as ideal model
systems to study patterns and processes of often rapid speciation. However, whereas a …

Global habitat fragmentation is associated with the emergence of infectious diseases of
wildlife origins in human populations. Despite this well-accepted narrative, the underlying …