The Evolution and Fossil Record of Parasitism: Identification and Macroevolution of Parasites

ISBN-13: 9783030424831 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 565 str.

Kenneth De Baets; John Huntley

Recenzje

"The diagrams, drawings, and photographs throughout are well done and professional, and really helped to tell the story being presented by each author. ... the whole book was interesting to read. With all of that, The Evolution and Fossil Record of Parasitism is a great resource for anyone with a serious interest in the microworld of parasites and their role in the fossil record." (Lorin R. King, The Quarterly Review of Biology, Vol. 97 (2), June, 2022)

Spis treści

The Evolution and Fossil Record of Parasitism –Identification and Macroevolution of Parasites

1. Identifying parasitism in the fossil record => Kenneth De Baets and Timothy Littlewood

2. Parasitism through time => Kenneth De Baets, John Huntley

3. Evolutionary and ecological importance of parasitism => Tommy Leung, Kenneth De Baets,

4. Evolutionary history 

a. Viral fossils => Aris Katzourakis

b. Bacteria as pathogens => George Poinar

c. Protistan parasites => Ewan Wolff , Tommy Leung

i. Foraminifers as parasites => Sally Walker

ii. Apicomplexa as parasites => Ildemar Ferreira

iii. Euglenozoa as parasites => George Poinar

iv. Fungi (including microsporidians as parasites) => Nick Butterfield

d. Plants as parasites => Nate B. Hardy and Lyn G. Cook

e. Metazoa as parasites

i. Cnidarians as parasites => Olev Vinn, Beth Okamura 

ii. Molluscs (Bivalves, Gastropods) as parasites => Christian Neumann

iii. Nematoids as parasites => George Poinar 

1. Nematodes as parasites

2. Nematomorphs as parasites

iv. Annelids as parasites => Luke Parry

v. Flatworms as parasites => Kenneth De Baets

vi. Rotifers as parasites (include Acan^ Thomas Near

vii. Chelicerates as parasites (include Acari) => Jason Dunlop, José de la Fuente

viii. Crustaceans as parasites => Christina Nagler, Joachim Haug

ix. Insects as parasitoids and parasites => Conrad Labandeira, Torsten Wappler

x. Vertebrates as parasites => Tommy Leung

xi. Minor parasitic^ Greg Rouse

xii. Extinct lineages of parasites => Kenneth De Baets

O autorze

Dr. Kenneth De Baets is a paleobiologist in the faculty of Natural Sciences at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nurnberg. He graduated from Ghent University with a Masters in Geology and earned his PhD in Evolutionary Biology at the University of Zürich.  His main research focuses on documenting and interpreting the relative contributions of abiotic (e.g., climate) and biotic factors (e.g., parasitism) in driving large-scale patterns in the evolution of life and biomineralization.

Dr. John Huntley is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Missouri. He graduated from Appalachian State University with a Bachelors of Science in 2000, then earned his Masters in Geology at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington in 2003, and his PhD in Geosciences at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 2007. His main research interests include the fossil record of biotic interactions, stratigraphic and conservation paleobiology, and the evolution of morphological disparity.

Blurb

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.