Constraining the deep origin of parasitic flatworms and host-interactions with fossil evidence

K De Baets, P Dentzien-Dias, I Upeniece… - Advances in …, 2015 - Elsevier
Novel fossil discoveries have contributed to our understanding of the evolutionary
appearance of parasitism in flatworms. Furthermore, genetic analyses with greater coverage …

Trematode diversity in freshwater fishes of the Globe II:'New World'

A Choudhury, ML Aguirre-Macedo, SS Curran… - Systematic …, 2016 - Springer
We provide a summary overview of the diversity of trematode parasites in freshwater fishes
of the 'New World', ie the Americas, with emphasis on adult forms. The trematode fauna of …

Phylogenetic framework for coevolutionary studies: a compass for exploring jungles of tangled trees

A Martínez-Aquino - Current Zoology, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Phylogenetics is used to detect past evolutionary events, from how species originated to
how their ecological interactions with other species arose, which can mirror cophylogenetic …

Integrative approach for discovering of the new species within the genus Allocreadium Looss, 1900 (Trematoda: Allocreadiidae) and framing of biogeographical …

KS Vainutis, AN Voronova, M Urabe… - Systematic Parasitology, 2023 - Springer
Abstract In July 2012 new Allocreadium species was isolated from Carassius gibelio caught
in the Arsenyevka River, Primorsky region, Russia. Analyses on the morphometrics and …

Integrating phylogenomic and population genomic patterns in avian lice provides a more complete picture of parasite evolution

AD Sweet, BM Boyd, JM Allen, SM Villa, MP Valim… - …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Parasite diversity accounts for most of the biodiversity on earth, and is shaped by many
processes (eg, cospeciation, host switching). To identify the effects of the processes that …

Biogeography of selected spring endemics in texas interglacial-drought refugia with unexpected insights from a spring-dependent nematode parasite

MLD Worsham, A Bond, JR Gibson, DG Huffman - Hydrobiology, 2023 - mdpi.com
The contemporary distribution of crenobiontic endemics in central Texas is enigmatic
because only some springs are occupied by crenobionts despite other unoccupied springs …

Phylogenetic reconciliation

H Menet, V Daubin, E Tannier - PLOS Computational Biology, 2022 - journals.plos.org
In phylogenetics, reconciliation is an approach to connect the history of two or more
coevolving biological entities. The general idea of reconciliation is that a phylogenetic tree …

Genomic data support the taxonomic validity of Middle American livebearers Poeciliopsis gracilis and Poeciliopsis pleurospilus (Cyprinodontiformes: Poeciliidae)

LM Ward, CD McMahan, B Khakurel, AM Wright… - PloS one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Poeciliopsis (Cyprinodontiformes: Poeciliidae) is a genus comprised of 25 species of
freshwater fishes. Several well-known taxonomic uncertainties exist within the genus …

Phylogeny and taxonomy of the genus Ilyodon Eigenmann, 1907 (Teleostei: Goodeidae), based on mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences

RG Beltrán‐López… - Journal of Zoological …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Taxonomy of the live‐bearing fish of the genus Ilyodon Eigenmann, 1907 (Goodeidae), in
Mexico, is controversial, with morphology and mitochondrial genetic analyses in …

[PDF][PDF] Checklist of freshwater symbiotic temnocephalans (Platyhelminthes, Rhabditophora, Temnocephalida) from the Neotropics

AM Aquino, F Brusa, C Damborenea - Zoosystematics and …, 2014 - zse.pensoft.net
Based on published records and original data derived from our research, we have
generated a checklist of symbiotic temnocephalan fauna from 57 taxa of freshwater …