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ReviewInfection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases2020

Assessing the evolutionary persistence of ecological relationships: A review and preview.

Luke B B Hecht, Peter C Thompson, Benjamin M Rosenthal

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Review in Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Luke B B HechtDurham University, Department of Biosciences, Durham, UK.
Peter C ThompsonUSDA-Agricultural Research Service, Animal Parasitic Diseases Lab, Beltsville, MD 20705 USA.
Benjamin M RosenthalUSDA-Agricultural Research Service, Animal Parasitic Diseases Lab, Beltsville, MD 20705 USA. Electronic address: benjamin.rosenthal@usda.gov.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Species interactions, such as pollination, parasitism and predation, form the basis of functioning ecosystems. The origins and resilience of such interactions therefore merit attention. However, fossils only occasionally document ancient interactions, and phylogenetic methods are blind to recent interactions. Is there some other way to track shared species experiences? "Comparative demography" examines when pairs of species jointly thrived or declined. By forging links between ecology, epidemiology, and evolutionary biology, this method sheds light on biological adaptation, species resilience, and ecosystem health. Here, we describe how this method works, discuss examples, and suggest future directions in hopes of inspiring interest, imitators, and critics.

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Biological EvolutionEcosystemHost-Parasite InteractionsAnimalsGenomicsHumansanthropocenebottleneckcomparative demographyecologyeffective population sizeevolutionhistoryparasitismpollinationpopulationPSMC

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PMID32622083
PMCPMC7327472

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