Evoregions of fleas and their small mammalian hosts: Do they coincide?

ABSTRACT: Combining the biogeography and phylogenetic patterns of parasite-host associations allows a better understanding of the history of parasite–host interactions, which can be achieved via biogeographic regionalization incorporating phylogenetic information. Recently, the concepts of evoregions (regions where a majority of species evolved from one or several ancestors inhabiting these regions) and evolutionary transition zones (regions of high phylogenetic turnover) have been proposed, coupled with a classification approach for these concepts. We applied this approach to 206 flea species and 265 host species of the Palearctic and aimed to identify evoregions and evolutionary transition zones for both fleas and hosts and to understand whether these evoregions and transition zones match e

SUBMITTER: Krasnov BR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10941218 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature