ReviewParasitology2015
Evolution of parasitism along convergent lines: from ecology to genomics.
Review in Parasitology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 61 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
61 citing papers in PubMed.
- A Divergent Mitochondrial Cytochrome c in Malaria Parasites With an Anomalously Low Redox Potential.Journal of molecular biology · 2026Article
- The shortest animal introns: insights from parasitic cnidarians.Molecular biology and evolution · 2026Article
- Emergent metabolic parasitism driven by organelle sequestration.Science advances · 2026Article
- Evolutionary Genomics of Human Gut Bacteria: Ecological Plasticity Across the Mutualism-Pathogenicity Spectrum.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Review
- A Divergent CytochromebioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Evolution of parasitism-related traits in nematodes.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Variation in Genome Architecture and Epigenetic Modification Across the Microsporidia Phylogeny.Genome biology and evolution · 2025Article
- Genome of the Myiasis-Causing Fly Chrysomya bezziana, the Old-World Screwworm.Genome biology and evolution · 2025Article
- Altered Mitochondrial Respiration Is Associated With Loss of Nuclear-Encoded OXPHOS Genes in Parasitic Broomrapes.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Divergent Genetic Pathways Underlying Convergent Parasitic Behaviours in Blowflies.Molecular ecology · 2025Article
- Genomic signatures associated with the evolutionary loss of egg yolk in parasitoid wasps.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Transcriptome analysis of interna rootlets of the rhizocephalan Parasacculina sinensis reveals potential mechanisms of parasite host control.BMC genomics · 2025Article
- Molecular and Functional Convergences Associated with Complex Multicellularity in Eukarya.Molecular biology and evolution · 2025Article
- MirGeneDB 3.0: improved taxonomic sampling, uniform nomenclature of novel conserved microRNA families and updated covariance models.Nucleic acids research · 2025Article
- Reconstructing the last common ancestor of all eukaryotes.PLoS biology · 2024Review
- Expanded gene and taxon sampling of diplomonads shows multiple switches to parasitic and free-living lifestyle.BMC biology · 2024Article
- Coordinated molecular and ecological adaptations underlie a highly successful parasitoid.eLife · 2024Article
- Comparative genomics of Ascetosporea gives new insight into the evolutionary basis for animal parasitism in Rhizaria.BMC biology · 2024Article
- What we know so far and what we can expect next: A molecular investigation of plant parasitism.Genetics and molecular biology · 2024Article
- Ecomorphological convergence in the walking leg dactyli of two clades of ascidian- and mollusc-associated shrimps (Decapoda: Caridea: Palaemonidae).Ecology and evolution · 2023Article
1 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
2 authors.
Funding
Abstract
SUMMARY From hundreds of independent transitions from a free-living existence to a parasitic mode of life, separate parasite lineages have converged over evolutionary time to share traits and exploit their hosts in similar ways. Here, we first summarize the evidence that, at a phenotypic level, eukaryotic parasite lineages have all converged toward only six general parasitic strategies: parasitoid, parasitic castrator, directly transmitted parasite, trophically transmitted parasite, vector-transmitted parasite or micropredator. We argue that these strategies represent adaptive peaks, with the similarities among unrelated taxa within any strategy extending to all basic aspects of host exploitation and transmission among hosts and transcending phylogenetic boundaries. Then, we extend our examination of convergent patterns by looking at the evolution of parasite genomes. Despite the limited taxonomic coverage of sequenced parasite genomes currently available, we find some evidence of parallel evolution among unrelated parasite taxa with respect to genome reduction or compaction, and gene losses or gains. Matching such changes in parasite genomes with the broad phenotypic traits that define the convergence of parasites toward only six strategies of host exploitation is not possible at present. Nevertheless, as more parasite genomes become available, we may be able to detect clear trends in the evolution of parasitic genome architectures representing true convergent adaptive peaks, the genomic equivalents of the phenotypic strategies used by all parasites.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.