ReviewJournal of evolutionary biology2022
Coevolutionary theory of hosts and parasites.
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- Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics of Infection and Immunity in Experimentally Founded Lake Populations of Threespine Stickleback.The American naturalist · 2026Article
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- Trait-Based Drivers of Host Specificity in Freshwater Mussel-Fish Parasitic Interactions.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- Competition constrains parasite adaptation to thermal heterogeneity.Evolution letters · 2026Article
- Changes to Skin Microbiome Community Dynamics Support Resistance to Enzootic and Epizootic Strains of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) in the Spotted Salamander (Ambystoma maculatum).Molecular ecology · 2026Article
- Parasite-Host Associations in Pinworms (Trypanoxyuris spp.) From Spider Monkeys (Ateles spp.).American journal of primatology · 2026Article
- Convergence in Coevolved Systems: A Two-Axis Filter for Biomimetic Transferability.Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Contrasting geographic patterns of parasite and hantavirus diversity in the rodent Oligoryzomys longicaudatus (Rodentia, Cricetidae).PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2026Article
- Experimental evolution toward extinction in a molecular host-parasite system.Molecular biology and evolution · 2026Article
- Hybridization and Immunology in Animals: A Review.Ecology and evolution · 2026Review
- Coevolution of host resistance and pathogen exploitation in a propagule-mediated infection model.PLoS computational biology · 2026Article
- The antagonistic coevolution between Pseudomonas sivasensis W-6 and the cold-adapted phage VW6S.Antonie van Leeuwenhoek · 2026Article
- Integrative molecular and serum proteomic insights into subclinicalCurrent research in parasitology & vector-borne diseases · 2026Article
- Metabarcoding reveals a hidden endophytic stage of the 'zombie-ant' fungus in Amazonian mosses.IMA fungus · 2026Article
- Evidence for dilution effect by Gobio gobio, a dead-end host in the Unio crassus-Cyprinidae coevolutionary system.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Genome-Wide Protein Interaction Analysis in Parasitic Gyrodactylus Flatworms-Fish Hosts System and Drug Target Identification.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025Article
- The First of Us:bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Strong Bottlenecks Constrain Adaptive Coevolution in a Host-Parasite Metapopulation.Molecular ecology · 2025Article
- Boom-Bust Cycles Constrain Host-Parasite Dynamics, Suppress Parasite Spread, and Drive Parasites Extinct.The American naturalist · 2025Article
- Host-related genetic differentiation of a polyxenic avian ectoparasite,International journal for parasitology. Parasites and wildlife · 2025Article
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Abstract
Host and parasite evolution are closely intertwined, with selection for adaptations and counter-adaptations forming a coevolutionary feedback loop. Coevolutionary dynamics are often difficult to intuit due to these feedbacks and are hard to demonstrate empirically in most systems. Theoretical models have therefore played a crucial role in shaping our understanding of host-parasite coevolution. Theoretical models vary widely in their assumptions, approaches and aims, and such variety makes it difficult, especially for non-theoreticians and those new to the field, to: (1) understand how model approaches relate to one another; (2) identify key modelling assumptions; (3) determine how model assumptions relate to biological systems; and (4) reconcile the results of different models with contrasting assumptions. In this review, we identify important model features, highlight key results and predictions and describe how these pertain to model assumptions. We carry out a literature survey of theoretical studies published since the 1950s (n = 219 papers) to support our analysis. We identify two particularly important features of models that tend to have a significant qualitative impact on the outcome of host-parasite coevolution: population dynamics and the genetic basis of infection. We also highlight the importance of other modelling features, such as stochasticity and whether time proceeds continuously or in discrete steps, that have received less attention but can drastically alter coevolutionary dynamics. We finish by summarizing recent developments in the field, specifically the trend towards greater model complexity, and discuss likely future directions for research.
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