Coevolutionary Interactions Between Common Cuckoos and Corn Buntings

Brood Parasitism in Asian Cuckoos: Different Aspects of Interactions between Cuckoos and their Hosts in Bangladesh

Coevolutionary interactions between host and parasite genotypes.

More than 20 years after Dawkins introduced the concept of "extended phenotype" (i.e. phenotypes of hosts and parasites result from interactions between the two genomes) and although this idea has now reached contemporary textbooks of evolutionary biology, most studies of the evolution of host-parasite systems still focus solely on either the host or the parasite, neglecting the role of the oth...

Coevolutionary alternation in antagonistic interactions.

Coevolution between parasites and hosts or predators and prey often involves multiple species with similar kinds of defenses and counter-defenses. Classic examples include the interactions between phytophagous insects and their host plants, thick-shelled invertebrates and their shell-crushing predators, and ungulates and their predators. There are three major hypotheses for the nonequilibrium c...

Cuckoos

Do you have a favourite book? There are two books which really inspired me, both semipopulist books that I first read in the summer before I started university, and both of which I have read many times since. The first was Richard Dawkins ‘The Selfish Gene’ for its engaging descriptions of a wide range of animal behaviours, and what progress can be made from an understanding of evolutionary pri...

Polymorphism in multilocus host parasite coevolutionary interactions.

Numerous loci in host organisms are involved in parasite recognition, such as major histocompatibility complex (MHC) genes in vertebrates or genes involved in gene-for-gene (GFG) relationships in plants. Diversity is commonly observed at such loci and at corresponding loci encoding antigenic molecules in parasites. Multilocus theoretical models of host-parasite coevolution predict that polymorp...