Host-parasite coevolution

Cuckoo nestling ejecting a reed warbler egg
Photo: I. Wyllie. http://ww3.osf.co.uk/

Lecture bibliography

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Best, S. M. and Kerr, P. J. 2000. Coevolution of host and virus: The pathogenesis of virulent and attenuated strains of myxoma virus in resistant and susceptible European rabbits. Virology 267: 36-48.

Brooke, M. de L. and N. B. Davies. 1988. Egg mimicry by cuckoos Cuculus canorus in relation to discrimination by hosts. Nature 335: 630-632.

Brooke, M. de L. and N. B. Davies, and D. G. Noble. 1998. Rapid decline of host defences in response to reduced cuckoo parasitism: behavioural flexibility of reed warblers in a changing world. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 265: 1277-1282.

Bull, J. J., I. J. Molineux, and W. R. Rice. 1991. Selection of benevolence in a host-parasite system. Evolution 45: 875-882.

Davies, N. B. and M. Brooke. 1991. Coevolution of the cuckoo and its hosts. Scientific American 264 (January): 92-98.

Davies, N. B., and M. de L. Brooke. 1989. An experimental study of co-evolution between the cuckoo, Cuculus canorus, and its hosts. I. Host egg discrimination. The Journal of Animal Ecology 58: 207-224.

Davies, N. B. and M. De L. Brooke. 1989. An experimental study of co-evolution between the cuckoo, Cuculus canorus , and its hosts. II. host egg markings, chick discrimination and general discussion. The Journal of Animal Ecology 58: 225-236.

Dawkins, R. and Krebs, J. R. 1979. Arms races between and within species. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 205: 489-511.

Ewald, P. W. 1994. Evolution of infectious disease. Oxford University Press, Oxford, U.K.

Ewald, P. W. 1993. The evolution of virulence. Scientific American 268 (April): 86-93.

Farrell, B. D. 1998. “Inordinate fondness” explained: why are there so many beetles? Science 281: 555-559.

Fenner, F. 1983. Biological control, as exemplified by smallpox eradication and myxomatosis. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B 218: 259-285.

Kruger, O. and N. B. Davies. 2004. The evolution of egg size in the brood parasitic cuckoos. Behavioral Ecology 15: 210-218.

Mackinnon, M. J. and A. F. Read. 2004. Immunity promotes virulence evolution in a malaria model. PLOS Biology 2: 1286-1292.

May, R. M. and R. M. Anderson. 1983. Parasite-host coevolution. Pages 186-206 in D. J. Futuyma and M. Slatkin (eds.) Coevolution. Sinauer, Sunderland, Mass. USA.

Messenger, S. L., I. J. Molineux and J. J. Bull. 1999. Virulence evolution in a virus obeys a trade-off. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 266: 397-404.

Saunders, G., B. Cooke, K. McColl, R. Shine, and T. Peacock. 2010. Modern approaches for the biological control of vertebrate pests: an Australian perspective. Biological Control 52: 288-295.

Stewart, A. D., J. M. Logsdon, Jr., and S. E. Kelley. 2005. An empirical study of the evolution of virulence under both horizontal and vertical transmission. Evolution 59: 730-739.

Stoddard, M. C., and R. M. Kilner. 2013. The past, present and future of ‘cuckoos versus reed warblers’. Animal Behaviour 85: 693-699.

Thompson, J. N. 1994. The coevolutionary process. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.

York, J. E. and N. B. Davies. 2017. Female cuckoo calls misdirect host defences towards the wrong enemy. Nature Ecology & Evolution 1: 1520.

Zangerl, A. R. and M. R. Berenbaum. 2005. Increase in toxicity of an invasive weed after reassociation with its coevolved herbivore. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 102: 15529-15532.