Intensive Farming: Evolutionary Implications for Parasites and Pathogens

Niche construction: evolutionary implications for parasites and hosts.

Organisms can determine the environment they experience through the process of niche construction. This may have important evolutionary consequences by exposing them to new selection pressures, producing a faster response to selection, and building suites of coadapted traits. Traits of the parasite which influence the likelihood of encountering different host environments, or which change the h...

Phenotypic Variability Induced by Parasites : Extent and Evolutionary Implications

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Pathogens and Parasites in a Changing Climate

A Note on Evolutionary Rate Estimation in Bayesian Evolutionary Analysis: Focus on Pathogens

Bayesian evolutionary analysis provide a statistically sound and flexible framework for estimation of evolutionary parameters. In this method, posterior estimates of evolutionary rate (μ) are derived by combining evolutionary information in the data with researcher’s prior knowledge about the true value of μ. Nucleotide sequence samples of fast evolving pathogens that are taken at d...

The Case for Intensive Farming of Food Animals