Recent efforts to include parasites in food webs have drawn attention to a previously ignored
facet of foraging ecology: parasites commonly function as prey within ecosystems. Because …

This article reviews research on the evolutionary mechanisms leading to different
transmission modes. Such modes are often under genetic control of the host or the …

Parasites and infectious diseases are everywhere and represent some of the most potent
forces shaping the natural world. They affect almost every aspect imaginable in the life of …

Parasites have evolved independently in numerous animal lineages, and they now make up
a considerable proportion of the biodiversity of life. Not only do they impact humans and …

Parasitism is the most common animal lifestyle, yet food webs rarely include parasites. The
few earlier studies have indicated that including parasites leads to obvious increases in …

Recent progress in the field of wildlife disease ecology demonstrates that infectious disease
plays a crucial role in the lives of wild animals. Parasites and pathogens should be …

Multihost parasites can infect different types of hosts or even different host species.
Epidemiological models have shown the importance of the diversity of potential hosts for …

Transmission is a fundamental step in the life cycle of every parasite but it is also one of the
most challenging processes to model and quantify. In most host–parasite models, the …

(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 …

Many helminth taxa have complex life cycles, involving different life stages infecting different
host species in a particular order to complete a single generation. Although the broad …