• DOI:10.1080/10635150390132704
Corpus ID: 13596977

When do parasites fail to speciate in response to host speciation?

@article{Johnson2003WhenDP,
  title={When do parasites fail to speciate in response to host speciation?},
  author={K. Johnson and R. J. Adams and R. D. Page and D. Clayton},
  journal={Systematic biology},
  year={2003},
  volume={52 1},
  pages={
          37-47
        }
}

K. Johnson, R. J. Adams, +1 author D. Clayton

Published 2003

Biology, Medicine

Systematic biology

Cospeciation generally increases the similarity between host and parasite phylogenies. Incongruence between host and parasite phylogenies has previously been explained in terms of host switching, sorting, and duplication events. Here, we describe an additional process, failure of the parasite to speciate in response to host speciation, that may be important in some host-parasite systems. Failure to speciate is likely to occur when gene flow among parasite populations is much higher than that of… CONTINUE READING

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