Evolution and Historical Biogeography of a Parasite-Host Assemblage: \u3ci\u3eAlcataenia\u3c/i\u3e spp. (Cyclophyllidea: Dilepididae) in Alcidae (Charadriiformes)

  • Hoberg, Eric P.
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Publication date
January 1986
Publisher
DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Language
English

Abstract

The methodology of phylogenetic systematics was used to develop hypotheses for the evolution of eight species of Alcataenia, a group of host-specific cestodes of the Alcidae and, to a lesser extent, the Laridae (Charadriiformes). Concurrently, aspects of the early biogeography of alcids were reevaluated making it possible to study the historical and distributional relationships of parasites and hosts. The most parsimonious hypothesis for the phylogeny of Alcataenia suggested that sequential colonization or host switching with limited coevolution (coaccommodation) by parasites best explained the distributional patterns exhibited by Alcataenia spp. Morphological evolution of specific species of Alcataenia accompanied host switching, but was l...

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