Cryptosporidium is a protozoan parasite of medical and veterinary importance that causes
gastroenteritis in a variety of vertebrate hosts. Several studies have reported different …

The Apicomplexa is the only large taxonomic group whose members are entirely parasitic
and is, therefore, presumably of major interest to parasitologists. We might, for example …

Canine babesiosis caused by different Babesia species is a protozoal tick-borne disease
with worldwide distribution and global significance. Historically, Babesia infection in dogs …

Background Several phylogenomic analyses have recently demonstrated the need to
account simultaneously for incomplete lineage sorting (ILS) and hybridization when inferring …

The rhizobium–legume symbiosis has been widely studied as the model of mutualistic
evolution and the essential component of sustainable agriculture. Extensive genetic and …

We have sequenced the genome of the emerging human pathogen Babesia microti and
compared it with that of other protozoa. B. microti has the smallest nuclear genome among …

Analyses of the increasingly available genomic data continue to reveal the extent of
hybridization and its role in the evolutionary diversification of various groups of species. We …

Tremendous progress has been made over the last ten years on East Coast fever (ECF)
research. Publication of a reference genome sequence of Theileria parva, the causative …

Malaria has been one of the most important diseases of humans throughout history and
continues to be a major public health concern. The 5 species of Plasmodium that cause the …

In a 1997 seminal paper, W. Maddison proposed minimizing deep coalescences, or MDC,
as an optimization criterion for inferring the species tree from a set of incongruent gene …