Studies of local adaptation provide important insights into the power of natural selection
relative to gene flow and other evolutionary forces. They are a paradigm for testing …

Different loci within the genome of a single species can potentially coevolve in a manner that
is analogous to the Red Queen process among species. The major factor driving this …

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 …

Symbiotic microbes have become increasingly recognized to mediate interactions between
natural enemies and their hosts. The ecologies of these symbioses, however, are poorly …

Antagonistic coevolution between hosts and parasites is believed to play a pivotal role in
host and parasite population dynamics, the evolutionary maintenance of sex and the …

Local adaptation of parasites to their sympatric hosts has been investigated on different
biological systems through reciprocal transplant experiments. Most of these studies revealed …

In host-parasite coevolutionary arms races, parasites probably have an evolutionary
advantage. Parasite populations should be locally adapted, having higher mean fitness on …

Models of host‐parasite coevolution assume the presence of genetic variation for host
resistance and parasite infectivity, as well as genotype‐specific interactions. We used the …

Abstract According to the Red Queen hypothesis—which states that interactions among
species (such as hosts and parasites) lead to constant natural selection for adaptation and …

In several reciprocal cross-infection experiments parasites were found to be significantly
more adapted to their local host populations than to hosts from distant populations. We …