Host specificity, infrequent major host switching and the diversification of highly host-specific symbionts: The case of vane-dwelling feather mites

Detecting ancient codispersals and host shifts by double dating of host and parasite phylogenies: Application in proctophyllodid feather mites associated with passerine birds

(2017) Pavel B. Klimov et al.   EVOLUTION

Revisiting the particular role of host shifts in initiating insect speciation

(2017) Andrew A. Forbes et al.   EVOLUTION

Cophylogenetic analyses reveal extensive host-shift speciation in a highly specialized and host-specific symbiont system

(2017) Jorge Doña et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Inordinate Fondness Multiplied and Redistributed: the Number of Species on Earth and the New Pie of Life

(2017) Brendan B. Larsen et al.   QUARTERLY REVIEW OF BIOLOGY

Global associations between birds and vane-dwelling feather mites

(2016) Jorge Doña et al.   ECOLOGY

Geography and major host evolutionary transitions shape the resource use of plant parasites

(2016) Joaquín Calatayud et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

In four shallow and mesophotic tropical reef sponges from Guam the microbial community largely depends on host identity

(2016) Georg Steinert et al.   PeerJ

Using the BirdTree.org website to obtain robust phylogenies for avian comparative studies: A primer

(2015) Diego Rubolini et al.   Current Zoology

Host generalists and specialists emerging side by side: an analysis of evolutionary patterns in the cosmopolitan chewing louse genus Menacanthus

(2015) Jana Martinů et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR PARASITOLOGY

Different space preferences and within-host competition promote niche partitioning between symbiotic feather mite species

(2015) Sofía Fernández-González et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR PARASITOLOGY

Dispersal and ecological traits explain differences in beta diversity patterns of European beetles

(2015) Carola Gómez-Rodríguez et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

DNA barcoding and minibarcoding as a powerful tool for feather mite studies

(2015) Jorge Doña et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

A comprehensive phylogeny of birds (Aves) using targeted next-generation DNA sequencing

(2015) Richard O. Prum et al.   NATURE

Evolution in action: climate change, biodiversity dynamics and emerging infectious disease

(2015) E. P. Hoberg et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Using the BirdTree.org website to obtain robust phylogenies for avian comparative studies: A primer

(2015) Diego Rubolini et al.   Current Zoology

Niche Partitioning of Feather Mites within a Seabird Host, Calonectris borealis

(2015) Laura M. Stefan et al.   PLoS One

Understanding Host-Switching by Ecological Fitting

(2015) Sabrina B. L. Araujo et al.   PLoS One

Differences in speciation progress in feather mites (Analgoidea) inhabiting the same host: the case of Zachvatkinia and Alloptes living on arctic and long-tailed skuas

(2014) Miroslawa Dabert et al.   EXPERIMENTAL AND APPLIED ACAROLOGY

Drivers of parasite sharing among Neotropical freshwater fishes

(2014) Mariana P. Braga et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

From cuckoos to chickens: a caught-in-the-act case of host shift in feather mites (Arachnida: Acari: Psoroptoididae)

(2014) Fabio Akashi Hernandes et al.   PARASITOLOGY RESEARCH

Repeatability of Feather Mite Prevalence and Intensity in Passerine Birds

(2014) Javier Diaz-Real et al.   PLoS One

Species formation by host shifting in avian malaria parasites

(2014) R. E. Ricklefs et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Avibase – a database system for managing and organizing taxonomic concepts

(2014) Denis Lepage et al.   ZooKeys

PERMANOVA, ANOSIM, and the Mantel test in the face of heterogeneous dispersions: What null hypothesis are you testing?

(2013) Marti J. Anderson et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Cospeciation vs host-shift speciation: methods for testing, evidence from natural associations and relation to coevolution

(2013) D. M. de Vienne et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Is Permanent Parasitism Reversible?—Critical Evidence from Early Evolution of House Dust Mites

(2013) Pavel B. Klimov et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

The relationship between species replacement, dissimilarity derived from nestedness, and nestedness

(2012) Andrés Baselga   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Ectoparasite fitness in auxiliary hosts: phylogenetic distance from a principal host matters

(2012) I. S. Khokhlova et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

The global diversity of birds in space and time

(2012) W. Jetz et al.   NATURE

Diversitree: comparative phylogenetic analyses of diversification in R

(2012) Richard G. FitzJohn   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

betapart: an R package for the study of beta diversity

(2012) Andrés Baselga et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Ehrlich and Raven Revisited: Mechanisms Underlying Codiversification of Plants and Enemies

(2011) Niklas Janz   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

There and back again: switching between host orders by avian body lice (Ischnocera: Goniodidae)

(2011) KEVIN P. JOHNSON et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

A hitchhikers guide to the Galápagos: co-phylogeography of Galápagos mockingbirds and their parasites

(2011) Jan Štefka et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

The evolution of host specificity in dove body lice

(2011) KEVIN P. JOHNSON et al.   PARASITOLOGY

Estimating phylogenetic relationships despite discordant gene trees across loci: the species tree of a diverse species group of feather mites (Acari: Proctophyllodidae)

(2011) LACEY L. KNOWLES et al.   PARASITOLOGY

Host specificity in phylogenetic and geographic space

(2011) Robert Poulin et al.   TRENDS IN PARASITOLOGY

How specialists can be generalists: resolving the "parasite paradox" and implications for emerging infectious disease

(2011) Salvatore J. Agosta et al.   Zoologia

DendroPy: a Python library for phylogenetic computing

(2010) J. Sukumaran et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Picante: R tools for integrating phylogenies and ecology

(2010) S. W. Kembel et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

To speciate, or not to speciate? Resource heterogeneity, the subjectivity of similarity, and the macroevolutionary consequences of niche-width shifts in plant-feeding insects

(2009) Tommi Nyman   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Partitioning the turnover and nestedness components of beta diversity

(2009) Andrés Baselga   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Similarity in ectoparasite faunas of Palaearctic rodents as a function of host phylogenetic, geographic or environmental distances: Which matters the most?

(2009) Boris R. Krasnov et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR PARASITOLOGY

Decay of similarity with host phylogenetic distance in parasite faunas

(2009) R. POULIN   PARASITOLOGY

Ecological fitting by phenotypically flexible genotypes: implications for species associations, community assembly and evolution

(2008) Salvatore J. Agosta et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Geography and host specificity: Two forces behind the genetic structure of the freshwater fish parasite Ligula intestinalis (Cestoda: Diphyllobothriidae)

(2008) Wafa Bouzid et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR PARASITOLOGY

A macroevolutionary mosaic: episodic host-switching, geographical colonization and diversification in complex host-parasite systems

(2008) Eric P. Hoberg et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Origin and higher-level relationships of psoroptidian mites (Acari: Astigmata: Psoroptidia): Evidence from three nuclear genes

(2008) Pavel B. Klimov et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Homage to Linnaeus: How many parasites? How many hosts?

(2008) A. Dobson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Host specificity under molecular and experimental scrutiny

(2007) Robert Poulin et al.   TRENDS IN PARASITOLOGY