The evolution and fossil record of parasitism : identification and macroevolution of parasites / Kenneth De Beats, John Warren Huntley, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Baets, Kenneth de, editor.

Huntley, John Warren, editor.

Series:

Topics in geobiology ; Volume 49.

Topics in Geobiology ; Volume 49

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Paleontology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XII, 565 p. 147 illus., 96 illus. in color.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2021.

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2021]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

This two-volume edited book highlights and reviews the potential of the fossil record to calibrate the origin and evolution of parasitism, and the techniques to understand the development of parasite-host associations and their relationships with environmental and ecological changes. The book deploys a broad and comprehensive approach, aimed at understanding the origins and developments of various parasite groups, in order to provide a wider evolutionary picture of parasitism as part of biodiversity. This supplements contributions by parasitologists that mostly focus on extrapolating from current host associations or distributions, to estimate constraints on the timing of the origin and evolution of various parasite groups. This approach allows a wider evolutionary picture of parasitism on, and as part of, biodiversity. Volume one focuses on identifying parasitism in the fossil record, and sheds light on the distribution and ecological importance of parasite-host interactions over time. In order to better understand the evolutionary history of parasites and their relationship with changes in the environment, emphasis is given to viruses, bacteria, protista and plants as parasites. Particular attention is given to metazoans such as molluscs, cnidarians, crustaceans and insects as parasites. Researchers, specifically parasitologists, interested in the evolutionary history of parasite-host interactions, as well as students studying parasitism will find this book appealing. .

Contents:

Chapter 1. Parasites of Fossil Vertebrates: What We Know and What can We Expect from the Fossil Record?

Chapter 2. Fossil Record of Viruses, Parasitic Bacteria and Parasitic Protozoa

Chapter 3. Fungi as Parasites: A Conspectus of the Fossil Record

Chapter 4: Evolution, Origins and Diversification of Parasitic Cnidarians

Chapter 5. Evolutionary History of Bivalves as Parasites

Chapter 6. Gastropods as Parasites and Carnivorous Grazers – A Major Guild in Marine Ecosystems

Chapter 7: Fossil Constraints on the Timescale of Parasitic Helminth Evolution

Chapter8. Thorny-headed Worms (Acanthocephala): Jaw-less Members of Jaw-bearing Worms that Parasitize Jawed Arthropods and Jaw-bearing Vertebrates

Chapter 9. Chelicerates as Parasites

Chapter 10. Evolutionary History of Crustaceans as Parasites

Chapter 11. The History of Insect Parasitism and the Mid-Mesozoic Parasitoid Revolution.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

3-030-42484-7

OCLC:

1250276017